It appears that this is a good deal of smoke and mirrors. The munitions part has a some crude editing and appears to be anything but a precision solution (which is what you want in something that explodes). This aircraft flies (way) to slow to be effective. I'll resist the urge to be a music critic.
Sweet... Very useful - As a former Army Combat Engineer (12B), I would feel better working a tasking with this little bird along for some serious overwatch!
Great job Textron, excellent precision, low weight, diverse launch options, rapid response, low collateral damage liklihood. Let's hope these are taking out mortar and sniper positions in Astan & beyond within 12 months.
Is it just me? Or are all the "defense" companies specializing in anti civilian OFFENSIVE weapons these days? That's not anti missile. It's not anti aircraft. It's not coastal defense. It is small target urban type warfare. I didn't see that white pick up truck or the board in the middle being tried in court before being "prosecuted". I guess when seal team six isn't enough as your own personal assassin team- you can resort to this. Aside from that.... good jobTextron.
@briansmobile1 Well, I think they are going for more urban combat because most of the 'Terrorists' hide among civilians, so something that could take out a truck say in Somalia that has a turret mounted on it, it could take the truck out, with minimal damage to the surroundings.
@MichaelMitchellM Thanks for the reply. I wasn't thinking about Somalia. I was kind of hoping we could stay out of conflicts like that all together. Seems like it's just kicking a bee hive when you enter a war with Asia, Middle East, or Africa. England did it only to be bankrupted and having to sell out to German bankers. I'm not crazy about foreign wars, but then again my paychecks don't come from selling offensive anti Somali truck weapons.
@briansmobile1 Yeah, it's just you. Would you rather a 2,000lb JDAM took out the technical? That make you feel better? Go read up a bit about COIN & the types of fighting they do in Astan & did in Iraq. The guy planting an IED in the road ain't firing a missile, he's never been on an aircraft & he can't swim. Taking him out & not him +the neighbourhood seems like a good thing to me.
It's hardly some secret agency we don't know the name of's newest tool of corporate and governmental oppression.
@corvanphoenix I understand that full well. I also don't think that way because getting out of Irag and Astan is even better than blowing up the guy planting the IED. I like the idea of going back on defense instead of all these offensive wars that never seem to end. It just seems like we're pissing in the wind. Our CIA put Sadam Hussein in power back in the 1960's. We've done the same to support and train Al Quida to fight the Russians. Seems we create our own enemies. Is that wrong?
@roidroid Any time you talk to some one or listen to a speech from the Industrialized Military Complex they all have the same PR rhetoric where it sounds like legal paper work, yet the subject is blowing stuff up and burning people. Words like "ordinance" and "prosecute" instead of Fire POWER and mother f'n annihilate. It's like those useless plastic engine covers on people's cars. Or the big green curtain on the wizard of Oz. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH because in my narcissism you're dumb.
0:35 90% probability that the flag he is holding was "Made in China".
JRCrowley 1 week ago
2:34
'Hey look guys, funny popping penguin!'
'Yeah, how cute! But why does it smoke ike that, a little birdie must got ill.'
krbosak 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos
Oh good, patrolling the border with deadly munitions... I like it already!
doceigen 4 months ago
12 gauge = game over
thirtyminuteslater 5 months ago
@thirtyminuteslater While true, a redneck could defeat this. Not many combatant troops carry 12 gauge shotguns loaded with birdshot :)
Camo netting would defeat it pretty well though. it only weighs 6 pounds.. just stand off the explosion like the old torpedo nets.
LikesToPoopMore 5 months ago
Lets see it hit a moving target. Its easy to knock a straw man down.
KarasCyborg 5 months ago
It appears that this is a good deal of smoke and mirrors. The munitions part has a some crude editing and appears to be anything but a precision solution (which is what you want in something that explodes). This aircraft flies (way) to slow to be effective. I'll resist the urge to be a music critic.
toughdogyt 5 months ago
Sweet... Very useful - As a former Army Combat Engineer (12B), I would feel better working a tasking with this little bird along for some serious overwatch!
Robertlynschultz 5 months ago
Wow, seems very sophisticated for it's size (Coz that often means it's also cheap).
Hand launched, remote launched, UAV with image stabilisation,
and what i'm assuming is AUTOMATED object tracking and ramming.
Mission updates on-the-fly, via remote.
Seems a very tight little package. It does everything!
roidroid 6 months ago
Aww! I wanted the awesome little guy to live!!
Great job Textron, excellent precision, low weight, diverse launch options, rapid response, low collateral damage liklihood. Let's hope these are taking out mortar and sniper positions in Astan & beyond within 12 months.
corvanphoenix 6 months ago
Better get some #4 bird shot!
HonestJohn60 6 months ago
Is it just me? Or are all the "defense" companies specializing in anti civilian OFFENSIVE weapons these days? That's not anti missile. It's not anti aircraft. It's not coastal defense. It is small target urban type warfare. I didn't see that white pick up truck or the board in the middle being tried in court before being "prosecuted". I guess when seal team six isn't enough as your own personal assassin team- you can resort to this. Aside from that.... good jobTextron.
briansmobile1 6 months ago
@briansmobile1 Well, I think they are going for more urban combat because most of the 'Terrorists' hide among civilians, so something that could take out a truck say in Somalia that has a turret mounted on it, it could take the truck out, with minimal damage to the surroundings.
I hope this makes a bit more sense...
MichaelMitchellM 6 months ago
@MichaelMitchellM Thanks for the reply. I wasn't thinking about Somalia. I was kind of hoping we could stay out of conflicts like that all together. Seems like it's just kicking a bee hive when you enter a war with Asia, Middle East, or Africa. England did it only to be bankrupted and having to sell out to German bankers. I'm not crazy about foreign wars, but then again my paychecks don't come from selling offensive anti Somali truck weapons.
briansmobile1 6 months ago
@briansmobile1 Yeah, it's just you. Would you rather a 2,000lb JDAM took out the technical? That make you feel better? Go read up a bit about COIN & the types of fighting they do in Astan & did in Iraq. The guy planting an IED in the road ain't firing a missile, he's never been on an aircraft & he can't swim. Taking him out & not him +the neighbourhood seems like a good thing to me.
It's hardly some secret agency we don't know the name of's newest tool of corporate and governmental oppression.
corvanphoenix 6 months ago
@corvanphoenix I understand that full well. I also don't think that way because getting out of Irag and Astan is even better than blowing up the guy planting the IED. I like the idea of going back on defense instead of all these offensive wars that never seem to end. It just seems like we're pissing in the wind. Our CIA put Sadam Hussein in power back in the 1960's. We've done the same to support and train Al Quida to fight the Russians. Seems we create our own enemies. Is that wrong?
briansmobile1 6 months ago
@briansmobile1 The misnomer has always been the word "Defence", ie: National Defence.
All the weaponry (and most tactics) are OFFENCE, and that has never changed.
I'm not sure when in history the spindoctors started re-framing offence as "defence". But it happened.
It's just PR shenanigans. Like how we now call Jungles "rainforests" and swamps "wetlands".
roidroid 6 months ago
@roidroid Any time you talk to some one or listen to a speech from the Industrialized Military Complex they all have the same PR rhetoric where it sounds like legal paper work, yet the subject is blowing stuff up and burning people. Words like "ordinance" and "prosecute" instead of Fire POWER and mother f'n annihilate. It's like those useless plastic engine covers on people's cars. Or the big green curtain on the wizard of Oz. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH because in my narcissism you're dumb.
briansmobile1 6 months ago