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Have to agree with Sagemind -- I found another one too: http://videosift.com/video/Houston-Police-Tests-UAV

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>> ^tsarsfield:

It's probably going to be used instead helicopters. They're cheaper and longer lasting than helos in terms of cost.


Helicopters are used because they can hover. The UAV that I saw in the video doesn't look like it was designed to hover...

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After actually playing the game, I need to correct myself. The red boxes do appear in the UAV bombardment screen, so that's not part of the hack.

Actually, it's probably cheaper to bribe them not to shoot at trucks than it is to replace the convoys (supplies and equipment) that would otherwise be destroyed.

regarding the cousins/brothers/quasi-government businessmen - I don't think they are scared of criminal extortion or "bribing a foreign official" charge when they are in the business of murder. It's like expecting the driver of a getaway car for a bank robbery to pay a parking ticket...

Here's how we get out of the "crazy zone" - pull out. All troops, all contractors. Keep UAVs flying for recon, and send in missiles to blow up training camps.

Throughout the video, when you see little red and blue boxes on the screen, those indicate the position of other players, even through walls and on the UAV screen, where you don't normally see indicators for other players. That's called a Wallhack, basically letting you see all the other players through walls, so no one can really surprise you, and you can kill them easily by shooting through bullet-vulnerable walls.

He's also supposedly using an Aimbot, which is a hack that at the click of a button moves your target towards the enemy's head, allowing you to get headshots without any skill at all. This one is harder to see or prove, however, since there are players good enough that are able to achieve very fast headshot aiming without hacks.

I wonder if a single F22 could beat 15 UAV Predators

This could be an Anti-UAV-UAV.... it just flys into the other plane and shreds them to bits.

This isn't top secret is it?

As a general rule I'm quite against the military industrial complex that has become our 4th wing of government (the Pentagon) that has ensured we've been at war since the 50's somewhere in the world and will be for an unforeseeable future. Not to mention the large segment of the population that treats war and it's atrocities as a hobby.

But that is one fucking wicked looking UAV.


(and yea, nice 80's music, cg and animation too.)

^ 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.

OK. Super awesome cool looking aircraft. If I make a sci-fi movie I definitely want to cast this vehicle as a central character.

But the concept seems all wrong. I thought the point of UAVs was small, lightweight and inexpensive. This seems like a defense contractor trying to sell a Cadillac to someone who needs a delivery scooter. We already have a UAV that delivers smart missiles. If you need to deliver 2000lb bombs then scale it up. If you need an air-superiority drone then take a gun, stick a jet engine on it and design as much wing and fuselage around it as you need for it to have the flight characteristics you want.

Creating an all-in-one vehicle that can be converted to manned control will result in an aircraft that performs none of those intended roles as well as a purpose built vehicle for each of those roles...and at ten times the cost to build and operate.

This smells like the military industrial complex trying desperately to create a new bottomless pit of revenue.