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Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
We called this the "suicide-mobile". There's a black canopy/frame version with a really good muffler. You get about 5k, cut the engine, and glide, while you let fly with the NV camera.
However, there's several issues:
1) it has a far from zero radar signature
2) it has no armor
3) when they finally say "This blip...wtf is that? Five knots, 1500 ft? Hey, take a little bird and go see what it is" you are screwed
4) The max airspeed is 25 knots, not exactly a fast getaway. Just right for "follow us back to the base or we open fire"
[edit on 25-7-2006 by Tom Bedlam]
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun to fly one.
As long as you are doodling around Yuma, anyway. Up and down the beach would be sweet, too.
It's not so great when you're playing the starring role in Parachute Piñata against a helicopter full of unhappy people with firearms.
Originally posted by necro99
1. Anti-Personel Doppler Radar.
2. Seismic sensors.
3. Video cams (IR/Nightvision/full spectrum)
4. Directional mics
5. Sniffer probes...(Olfactory sensors)
6. Dedicated SAT surveillance
7. Air Defence Radar
8. Aircraft patrols
9. Armed ground patrols
1=Armor made of RAM and USAF anti-detection tactics
2=move like an animal
3=Heat-absorbing ghilie suit
4=be quiet as crap, no clinking or such
5=scent absorbing suit
6=move when SAT is not over zone
7=no airplane
8=duck and cover with an shield that looks like a rock
9=8
[Edited on 8/26/2002 by necro99]