US Special Ops robot whispercopter crashes in Belize
Tests by the US special forces of a radical, new-technology robot helicopter equipped with a radar intended to penetrate jungle canopies from above, have been terminated after a trials aircraft crashed in Belize. The A160T unmanned helicopter equipped with FORESTER radar. Credit: Boeing If the imperial stormtroopers had had …
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Just Kill It!
Since when did Nike start building BlackOps kit?
This is why..
...if you spend millions on experimental hardware - you build 2 of them.
Or possibly at least six
since this would appear to be the latest in a line of prangs. It would be interesting to know how many of these prototypes/test craft they have flying if they've managed to crash six but are going to carry on with the program.
Are they wonder if Boeing ...
gives a warranty that these things will fly or whether these crashes will simply lead to further orders.
Imagine this aircraft's vulnerability if it was operating in a theatre of war! I guess helicopters are a little more complex to fly than six when it roams are in Pakistan.
90/10
90 per cent of the objectives of the Belize trials had been met
But the sadly the 10% of objectives left unmet included the ability to remain airborne.
10% of objectives would be....
the ability to land without breaking!
Paris because she always knows what to do on landing.
This raises the philosophical question...
... If a US Special Ops stealthy whirlybird crashes in the forest, and there's nobody left alive to hear it, does it make sound?
Best subtitle yet
"Jungle man-sniff radar spybird totalled in prang" - wizard!
I just wonder if I can work it into a conversation.
This is just a chopper for....
....the rich into dogging!
Belize?
Since when have the Americans owned Belize? Somebody tell Lord Ashcroft!
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