7 WTF Military Weapons...

[Gnam]

...You Won't Believe They Actually Built

http://www.cracked.com/article_17366_p2.html


Good way to start your Memorial Day Weekend. :thumbup:

[STD]

http://www.defensetech.org/images/deepwater.jpg

[cameraman]

http://www.defensetech.org/images/deepwater.jpg

Yeah stealth is sooooo important for fisheries enforcement:shakehead

[datachicane]

http://www.youtube.com/BostonDynamics

Sounds like a Robin/Subaru. With a reasonably quiet muffler this thing would be unbelievably useful.

[racermike]

http://spananas.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ed209.jpg

I am waiting for the Ed-209

[Insomniac]

The write-up on the flying aircraft carrier was funny.

[Napoleon]

The write-up on the flying aircraft carrier was funny.

The XF-85 that is pictured in that write up was at the Wright-Patterson Aircraft Museum when I went around 30 years ago.

[nrc]

http://spananas.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/ed209.jpg

I am waiting for the Ed-209

Still trying to work out the "stairs" problem.

[Gnam]

I still can't believe they built this thing:


An unfortunate incident last month when a MV-22 Osprey was damaged in a grass fire is just the latest indication that the tilt-rotor’s fearsomely hot exhaust can cause real problems; it can even damage ships’ decks.


http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/06/hot-breathing-osprey-sparks-five-acre-fire

Thunder Chicken! :laugh:

[STD]

I can't believe they are still trying to use it. :laugh: