woodster
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 11:56 AM |
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Don't fear the reaper
now thats what i call a video game ..... them yanks are mad as f$$k
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289380,00.html
[Edited on 16/7/07 by woodster]
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donut
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 11:59 AM |
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Thats so COOL! untill they bomb our boys by mistake!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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James
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 12:23 PM |
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Both the Americans and Israelis have had Hellfire missile armed Predators for some time.
Read an interesting Times magazine article few months back about the US' inability to find Bin Laden which included an interview with an ex-CIA
operative. It said they'd actually had Bin Laden on the camera of a Predator in the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan. Sadly it wasn't armed
with any Hellfires..... due to a row between the military and the CIA over who would fund the $5million cost of the missile!!!
Bureacratic inefficiency always wins in the end!
Cheers,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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JAG
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 12:27 PM |
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The day they get rid of the guy manning the control desk is when I'll worry - but I've probably watched to many Terminator films 
Justin
Who is this super hero? Sarge? ...No.
Rosemary, the telephone operator? ...No.
Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? ...Could be!
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skodaman
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 02:20 PM |
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I wonder if they could be used to take out speed cameras.
Skodaman
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skodaman
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 02:20 PM |
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I wonder if they could be used to take out speed cameras.
Skodaman
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robertst
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 02:56 PM |
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quote:
The Reaper's first combat deployment is expected in Afghanistan, and senior Air Force officers estimate it will land in Iraq sometime between
this fall and next spring. They look forward to it.
i dont get it... so they unveil a new pilotless fighter plane, armed with a tonne and a half of bombs, suitably called "the Reaper" manned
by the local army computer nerd, and to test it out they decide "bah we'll just test it on Afghanistan and Iraq theyre fighting each other
anyways, so whats a bit more bombing and chaos to them?"...
what really worries me is that they're looking forward to it!!!!!
Tom
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UncleFista
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| posted on 16/7/07 at 03:28 PM |
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I watched a program last night about GPS guided artillery shells.
The electronics in the shell needed to (and did) withstand 16,000G's !
They fired a test shell (purposefully) 4 miles off target, it corrected itself and guided itself in and exploded within 3 metres of the target.
They're taking this "smart bomb" technology all the way.....
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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