Wednesday, November 5, 2008

An Interesting Weapons Platform... Weaponized Drones

This platform has an interesting level of flexibility. I can see several possible uses of such an armed delivery crate to to the battlefield. Though It might need some tweaking to be more effectively dropped in concert with a combat team. However if dropped into say a terrorist training camp it just might do a bit of damage. There are some obvious design flaws with the system as presented but given a bit of mobility this platform would be very deadly. It could operate as a sort of US Army Drone sent in to absorb the brunt of an assault and each cannons or missle racks could be manned by a soldier in a far away save bunker similar to USAF Preditor Drone pilots.

Obviously the concepts needs some refinement but it has potential in my estimation.

Not the usual topic for this blog but still it is VERY COOL!

A friend sent this YouTube video to me and it is absolutely amazing to watch the level of presision control that has been achieve with this water fountain.

As for a possible sci-fi application I see a day when many businesses in a quest for green points will utilize water gardens for small carbon credits and what advertising genius is not going to want to advertise something in such a "peaceful fashion"? Mark my words on this this is likely to find its way into many public entities and private businesses.