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Another 180 'hover & stare' ducted fan bots for US forces

Wayland Sothcott

PULL! 

Black Helicopters

Whooorrrrrr....

BANG....

BANG.... {got it with the second barrol}

PULL

Anonymous Coward

A presence I haven't felt since... 

Black Helicopters

Is it just me, or is that spybot eerily evocative of the probe droids used in The Empire Strike Back?

Anonymous Coward

17 pounds? 

Flame

What's that in real money then? Why does El Reg use these archaic and out-moded measurements? This is a *technical* rag and *technical* people use SI units. You don't even say if you mean pounds Troy or pounds Avoirdupois FFS.

(It's about 7.7kg, assuming pounds Avoirdupois)

Paul Murphy

I for one.. 

Paris Hilton

Welcome our hovering, staring overloads (which may or may not be armed) and look forward to people hanging their clothes on those handy little legs to give them a quick dry.

Next question - who are they going to stare at? - PH has been done already (phnarr phnarr)

ttfn

Phil Hare

$65m for 180? 

Stop

That's roughly $360,000 per unit. I'm fairly certain my local model plane club and some open sourcers could come up with an alternative for $360 a pop.

Dave Bell

The DoD did check it works? 

I mean, this is something that is pretty neat, but does it work in combat?

9a big butterfly net, maybe?)

Anonymous Coward

BB 

Black Helicopters

I guess we will have to draw the curtains when watching our extreme porn now

Andrew Carpenter

Don't worry 

Alien

They're harmless yet annoying, and quite easy to take out.. just use your crowbar, or the gravity gun..

You don't have to be combine to work here ... but it helps!

Anonymous Coward

Damn pesky Manhacks 

Ruining my day. :(

John

I'm Made of Metal.... 

Coat

...My circuits gleam

I am perpetual, I keep the country clean...

Mines the one with the silver studs on it.