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2006-05-09 Science & Technology

Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts

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Posted by Steve 2006-05-09 09:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...experts say, virtually unstoppable.

They don't know our scrambling technology then...

Experts, good for nothing.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-09 10:13|| 2006-05-09 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn, all is lost. I guess we'd better all convert right now.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-09 12:45|| 2006-05-09 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Its one thing to have a vehicle, but quite another to pilot it. The vast majority of the technology has been around since I was four, when my dad took the hobby up. He tried to teach me to fly them, but my bum eyes kept me from being any good at it.

Still, whatever you grab off the shelf, or build custom, will have limited carrying capacity and distance: I think one could carry a hand-grenade. I can also think of how to coordinate a bomb run on the White House.

Obviously the physical damage would be minimal, and only by bad luck would someone actually get hurt or killed. The value is strictly symbolic, and given the typical Muslim hype machine, the Ummah could be convinced that it was the equivalent of a WW-II style bombing raid on Dresden or Coventry...
Understand that, while the physical damage would be minimal, it would be outweighed by the psychological effect multiplied by the typical Muslim hype-machine.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2006-05-09 14:47|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2006-05-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Very small planes carrying explosives, meet moderately-powered lasers.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-05-09 17:26|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-09 17:26|| Front Page Top

#5
Watch out for the huge clear hydrogen filled blimp comming like a Hindenburg to your neighborhood....

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-09 19:16|| 2006-05-09 19:16|| Front Page Top

#6 For this to work the robot aircraft would have to be very numeous and small. How many and how small? Only Hatfil........fsdafas./a;gaaaaaaaaaaf

Hatfield: You were gonna say thousands and tiny wern't 'ya?
6: Yes, I wan going to say thousands, of tiny flying robots what's wrong with tha.....ahhhh! Let go of my leg!

Posted by 6 2006-05-09 19:27|| 2006-05-09 19:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Pretty Simple.

We tell Saudi Arabia and so on that they put a leash on thier wahabbist and salafist, or for every strike on us there is an equal one on them, except ours will be precisely aimed at their mosques.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-05-09 22:02|| 2006-05-09 22:02|| Front Page Top

#8
Expert. x=the unknown. spert/spurt=drip under pressure.

Expert=An unknown drip under pressure!

Note: Some artistic license was used.

Posted by Manolo 2006-05-09 22:15|| 2006-05-09 22:15|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like the boyz over at the Net's military modeling and rocket blogs, etc. have to register their YAMATO + BISMARCK + USS TENNESSEE models wid the FBI, Secret Service, ATF, TSA and CIA-DIA-NSA. DON'T FERGIT THOSE TRAITOROUS FIFTH COLUMNIST TYKES OVER THE LOCAL DAY CARE/PRE-SCHOOL WID THEIR KITES + TONKAS + HOTWHEELS + WOODEN TRUCKS + DOLLIES - I TELL YA THEY'RE BUILDING BOMBS IN DEM DAR EASY-BAKE OVENS AND KICKBALLS!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-09 22:19|| 2006-05-09 22:19|| Front Page Top

#10 V1, meet the Kabba. Kabba, V1.

Posted by ed 2006-05-09 22:20|| 2006-05-09 22:20|| Front Page Top

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