The Reaper is basically the Predator MkII. Bigger, faster, can carry more payload.. They'res currently a fair bit of research into getting them to carry the new GBU-39 small diameter bomb, and to mount Stinger tubes on them.. What makes them really useful for Iraq is they have a really long loiter time - 36 hours, which means that you can have a bunch of them flying about, waiting for a target to present themselves, then whack them hard..
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords...
ReplyDeleteSeems to me we should be more secretive about the killer robots than about the killer badgers.
ReplyDeleteThe Reaper is basically the Predator MkII. Bigger, faster, can carry more payload.. They'res currently a fair bit of research into getting them to carry the new GBU-39 small diameter bomb, and to mount Stinger tubes on them.. What makes them really useful for Iraq is they have a really long loiter time - 36 hours, which means that you can have a bunch of them flying about, waiting for a target to present themselves, then whack them hard..
ReplyDeleteYay. Skynet is fully operational now. Just a few more minutes before the robots assume control over huma5*%34nm...
ReplyDeleteMuch more interesting than the usual. .
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