It’s only a concept.

;-)

drjohn on March 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM

If they have a video out it is prpbably past a concept. Have youheard of the Reaper?

Sven on March 3, 2008 at 7:20 PM

It’s not a concept, my father-in-law did the radar profile on it several years ago. This sucker is in production…

;-)

drjohn on March 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM

If they have a video out it is prpbably past a concept. Have youheard of the Reaper?

G-forces that can hamper them. All of those video games playing will pay off: hand and eye coordination to fly and respond to being attacked and firing their own weapons.

I guess I’ll let my son’s continue to play “Halo Live”.

Hey do you still get 72 virgins if you’re killed by a robot? Doesn’t Allah consider that sort of thing like an industrial accident?

- The Cat

P.S. I actually had a way old Scifi book where fax machines were part of the way kewl future tech.

P.P.S. Remember when Michael Knight talking into his watch was sooooooo wow. But kids today are all like “Why doesn’t he just take his phone out of his pocket?”

We know how much AP enjoys his war porn…but for those of us who know that it’s still a matter of joes kickin’ in doors and hold the line, we just have one question…
Can those of us who kick in doors start making a living wage comparable to state and federal employees of similar skill level and experience? And we can hold off on the vastly superior technology for the future, and stick with the very superior technology we have now. Just a suggestion.

Spc Steve

Well, as a fellow veteran of the door-kicking service (MP), I have to say that the inclusion of this technology is not, to me, a bad thing. Kicking in doors isn’t the only way to win battles, hence the concept of integrated combat arms. House-to-house fighting is hard, but when you have unmanned UAVs flying overhead that can look through houses while relaying that data to a man on the ground with a PDA, things get much easier. I prefer to know that there are bad guys ahead, then find out after I’ve kicked in the door to toss in a flash-bang or M67. Just like I’m all for the FCS MULE (http://www.army.mil/fcs/mule.html). Having a machine nearby that’s heavily armed and armored to watch a flank, or two, while having on-hand air support is not something I see too much of a downside to. Hey, if the FCS guys want to go all T2 on us and start making totally autonomous Bradley AFVs and Commanche RAH-66s follow us into combat to spray terrorists with Hellfire missiles, 70mm rockets, 25mm bullets and Javelins, I say “have at it”, “many happy returns” and “the more, the merrier”.

WOW. O_O

Lockheed-Martin H1B visa technology workers…
building the war-porn weapons that ordinary Americans are too lazy to build themselves.

DoD budget is a tiny fraction of what it needs to be, and the US needs to be spending much more money building and researching all sorts of gear. All elements of US forces need to be constantly supplied with new equipment – keeping as many orders of magnitude advantage on all enemies is a key part of the US deterrent.

Of course we need to cut (preferably eliminate) all other Federal spending, and some pay raises for the troops would be nice, but with recruitment and retention bonuses the boys and girls are still doing well. Add to that the many benefits for education and healthcare, as well as the low overhead for many soldiers, and you can’t quite compare the cash compensation. If you stay single (as you should) as a young soldier, between deployments and life on base you should have very little need to spend money. Add in combat pay and the enforced sobriety of Stan and the sandbox… A new E-4 (starting rank for enlisted with a 4-year degree) makes an average of 40K before taking into account enlistment bonuses, ed benefits, combat pay… Not bad money especially after taking into account all of the time you can’t spend anything.

;-)