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11 years ago @ Defense Tech - Chinese developing C-1... · 0 replies · +13 points
Progress!!!
Soon they will have as many white elephants as we do and we will start buying their government issued bonds.....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - Field Testing a Four-L... · 0 replies · +4 points
Or better yet the Army mascot the Mule works pretty well also.
Of course in a few years as the technology gets better, something like this could be dropped off in the forest/jungle/desert and sit until a vehicle or people come by and then ask for a human somewhere in the world to review the situation and then given a command to engage with weapons. There could be a lot of them working together.
Airborne UAV's can stay up in the sky for days. These could stay in the field for months.....Years.....
11 years ago @ Design Happens - Daily Delight: Hobbit ... · 0 replies · +5 points
1. LED lighting. The biggest issue with underground house is lighting. As LED lights come down in price living with less light will not be such an issue. They last a long time and use very little energy...
2. Solatubes. Designed to transmit light from the roof to rooms which have no windows. Brings sunlight into enclosed spaces. Would works just as good transmitting light through earth.
Almost all of these Hobbit Houses are made from all natural materials. Stone. wood, earth and brick. Paint and stain has become much better in the last few years so using wood is no longer such a chore....
I have a geodesic home. Most geodesic homes are god awful ugly. They try to be contemporary. I redid the outside of my dome with all natural materials (cedar roofing and wood siding) and went with a "country cute" slant. Wood shutter and flower boxes for the windows. It looks great:)
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - IDF mum on stolen F-16... · 0 replies · +7 points
That type of incentive can cause a lot of paperwork to look right as an engine gets driven off of base and is "lost".
It might not be the Chinese in this case.
But just because we are paranoid does not mean we do not have reason not to be....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - IDF mum on stolen F-16... · 3 replies · +9 points
They continually upgrade parts with new materials and designs.
Lots and lots of money go into making older engines more reliable and more efficient.
These are not the same engines that went into the aircraft when it was first rolled out.....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - X-47B next gen UCAS co... · 2 replies · +6 points
The problem with that is how will everyone else in the flight deck know what the aircraft is doing?
In the video there are a few other aircraft and a few people around. In a real deployment they flight deck would be packed and there would probably be 100 people on the flight deck all performing different jobs.
The flight deck is dangerous enough without a remote controlled aircraft running you over because you thought it was going to go one way and it goes another.....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - Army lists top inventi... · 0 replies · 0 points
And keep the campaign contributions coming.....
16 Trillion in debt and looking to mug the private sector and they cannot stop spending....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - F-35B ready for 'high ... · 3 replies · -7 points
They prefer "investment" into social programs more than having a Navy.
They should just get it over with and get rid of the Navy and roll what money is left over into the Air Force and Army.
Or take the money and order out some fast food for Parliament. If there is that much.....
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - General's wife: 'Rapto... · 0 replies · +2 points
Not saying there could not have been mitigating health circumstances; not saying the F-22 did this to him, but he would have been spending time in the ****pit.
As for the "valve" explanation, it does not sit well with me.
Granted, not having a vest helping to keep blood up to your head could make problems. Especially if you are doing a lot of high G aerodynamics.
And if you are older like this fellow was and was not in great shape there could be brain injury.
A couple MRI's might get to the bottom of it.....I know they can "read" damage to the brain from boxing, football and IED's. Granted it would be a different type of damage but if it is permanent it could be found......
11 years ago @ Defense Tech - Osprey Aeromechanics a... · 5 replies · 0 points
While I understand that the pilots would not want a "box" limiting their flying, it seems these accidents keep happening in much the same way.
It reminds me of the attempts to test "stall" on the early flying wing aircraft. It just made them crash. The pilots seem to be treating the craft like its boundaries must be pushed.
With this aircraft, flying precision is staying well within the flying boundaries. Not on the edge of them.
The situation also reminds me of the Harrier Jump Jet. When they first introduced them they only allowed veteran pilots to fly them.
Then they started bringing in brand new "Nuggets" into the program. The crash rate skyrocketed.
I do not know how you become an Osprey pilot, but if it is not already this way maybe it is time to make it so you have to have a certain amount of hours with another platform before you can switch over.....
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