^ Well, Lockheed is arguing that regardless of the per-airframe-cost, it will still be worth it because of the avoided logistics and overheads of instead dealing with 3 or 4 different UAV models. Not sure if that's true. This thing looks very expensive.

I think, in general, UAVs should be cheap and flexible, and this does not look cheap at all. I would think that cutting edge performance and stealth is not actually that relevant for UAVs -- if one of them gets shot down then there's no loss of life, minimum loss of money, and the enemy has revealed himself.

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>> ^Payback:
All's fun in UAV combat until a 16 yr old kid of a Russian Mafioso hacks the satellite...


No it was an Muslim kid, but he was just a fall guy for some rich white bastard. (NCIS Los Angeles)

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>> ^Sagemind:
Again..., What is it with police and arresting an mistreating people for no reason what's so ever...


I thnk it's called 'authoritarianism' because 9/11 changed everything.

We're safer now because of it.

And ignore the evidence of thermite in the WTC debris.

Stupid truthers.

If 9/11 was an inside job, then we've been bombing the shit out of two countries for the past seven years for no remotely justifiable reason.

And Boeing and Lockheed would lose some money...and boo-hoo that's bad for our economy....

>> ^notarobot:
A pretty video, and some impressive engineering, but I still think there are better ways to spend 65 BILLION Dollars.


Apparently the Secretary of Defense agrees with you and cancelled the F22. It is a ton of money, but what a bad ass jet. I've been looking forward to it for years.

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Great clip! A little * Dark though. Some things, like the "hunter-killer-airial-weapons-platform," are not as ficticious as I wish.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Meet-your-doom-Hovering-Multiple-Kill-Vehicle-is-here

Edit: a bit more explanation lives in this video:
http://www.videosift.com/video/MKV-Multiple-Kill-Vehicle-Lockheed-Martin

>> ^Zor:
>> ^Dash:
^ Seeing as it operates outside of the atmosphere, noise probably isn't a major concern

The video gives the impression it is space based, but the fact that they are running a 1g hover test as well as its small size suggest otherwise. It looks like an alternative to rapid air support, basically. I'm sure Janes has something on it.


It's an ICBM interceptor. This hover test demonstrates the ability of the carrier vehicle to translate orthogonally to it's flight path in order to achieve an intercept trajectory.

>> ^Dash:
^ Seeing as it operates outside of the atmosphere, noise probably isn't a major concern


The video gives the impression it is space based, but the fact that they are running a 1g hover test as well as its small size suggest otherwise. It looks like an alternative to rapid air support, basically. I'm sure Janes has something on it.

Wakka, wakka!

>> ^Zor:
Well from the sound of it it's not going to be sneaking up on anybody.

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http://www.videosift.com/video/MKV-Multiple-Kill-Vehicle-Lockheed-Martin

>> ^NetRunner:
Is this an animation? It doesn't look quite real.


ya, it looks like a computer mock up...still very sexy Very transformerish