Yeah, these things are death traps. They're so useless, the Navy has to send out OTHER helicopters to pre-scout landing zones for the Ospreys. Aside from that, the downblast from the rotors is so powerful, it makes work on a flight deck impossible during takeoffs and landings, as an added bonus, it also makes rappelling so dangerous Marines call it the "elevator of death".

Add to that the enormous cost of $72 million a unit a flight-speed too fast for escort helicopters and too slow for escort jets and a host of other problems and you have a very expensive and cool looking lawn ornament. 35 Billion dollars well-spent, Pentagon.

This is a variation on a lawn ornament mobile i saw once. rich people pay big money for novelties like this.

>> ^gtjwkq:
What are they doing indoors!?


I agree. I think American culture is insane for thinking that keeping dogs outside is cruel. I had a rottweiler and Siberian Shepperd in Russia. You couldn't even get them to go inside, they hated it! They had a huge insulated dog house, and a huge property to run around in. I mean, keep your dogs inside if you want, especially small ones...but big dogs...nothing cruel about it. And the house wont smell. ANIMALS. They live outside. And people need to let their cats out too. Whats cruel is keeping them indoors. Its like a prison. And no, they aren't lawn ornaments. Maybe if people left their animals outside more, than humans would spend more time out in the sun with them, instead of all getting fat together indoors in front of the tv. Obviously many people don't have a yard, or a fenced yard...fine. but if you do, let you freaking pets enjoy the wind, sun and grass? Its only natural. And don't for one second think its cruel when others do so.

>> ^gtjwkq:
What are they doing indoors!?


And what the fuck is wrong with them being indoors?

I've got myself a 115 lb or so Shepherd mix and a 50 or 55 pound Australian Cattle Dog, or Blue Heeler around here. Used to have a 120 lb Black Lab and a 55 or 60 lb Pit Bull/Blue Heeler mix as well. All indoor dogs as much as they wanted to be. They ask when they want in and asked when they want out. If I sit on the floor the Shepard mix sits in front of me then rears up, throws himself back in my arms and expects me to catch him like a baby or something, and so far I always have. He wants to be a lap dog too now that he's seen the smaller one do it.

Why have a dog in the first place if you're just going to leave it out in the weather and never see the thing? They make better pets than lawn ornaments.

Save your breath for Sharia law and 18 year old girls that get convicted of Grand Theft for stealing a plastic Christmas lawn ornament that happened to have a $5000 GPS transmitter in it.