Just remember that the members of DARPA don't think like you. Engineers and scientists are the ones that go to a James Bond movie and walk out saying "I want to be Q when I grow up".
Fight smart, not fair.There's moral issues in Terminator? I thought it was a pretty good sales pitch for unstoppable killer robots myself.
Fight smart, not fair.
Nope, but wikipedia could I think. Let me see...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA
A taster: "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military."
Less CIA, more the dudes in the James Bond films that build all the gadgets. They don't do much spying to my knowledge, they're almost entirely Rn D.
The pdf you linked had some interesting stuff. The extended casing idea was a neat work around to the blow by issue, the first thing that jumped to my mind was a sabot with an LRP or something in it. I do see they added something similar for their 40mm though.
Fight smart, not fair.I was grossly mistaken, it appears.
This photo is three years old
, but never fails to make me laugh. This is too silly to be real, even though the circumstance most certainly was not. Is there any penalty for this kind of mistake?
edited 23rd May '12 8:54:14 AM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Well, at least he was there, and at least he got to tell his folks that he was going to be in the New York Times.
Besides, I remember doing something similar. A general who was going round inspecting an exercise I was involved in flew in on his helicopter, came up to my tent/Land Rover combo and found me and my oppo with our combat jackets off, boots off and put in bergens, trainers on, fleecy jackets on and rifles stowed firmly away. Whilst we had the telly on watching soaps. At the top of a hill above Langholm in the Scottish Borders.
I to this day wonder why me and my oppo were not in a whole heap of shit with our Squadron/Regimental seniors for being improperly dressed when a general officer showed up. Mind you, the general and his acolytes didn't seem to be all that bothered. I recall he was actually giggling at one point in our conversation.
Yeah, probably,8-)
I do recall that it was something he expected Signals troops would pull. Hell, we had comms up in our rebroadcast vehicle, all our masts were up properly, our generator was correctly sited and so on.
The only thing that marred that exercise, on looking back on it, was a guy in a ten-tonner carrying a full load of POL on the back managing to put his truck in a ditch. Right next to our wagon. And having to help the idiot unload the truck so he could get the truck out of the ditch. Which was really big bugger of a one as well. If that truck had went boom, we wouldn't have known anything about it. We didn't actually know it was there until we woke up the following morning, walked out of the tent and had our jaws drop at our new neighbour.
Same thing REME did — what did you think those tilt frames on the back of the ARVs were for?
Keep Rolling On
Only REME types I knew were in the LAD team. I don't think I ever saw an ARV unless I walked past one in BATUS. Though at the time I must admit I was staring at the A S90s and falling a bit in love with the size of the things.
My roomate just linked me to this race, in October there will be one in my area.
I'm going to put a National Guard team together to run in cammies for this, it's going to rock. Boots and uts 5k.. WITH ZOMBIES! It's a shame you can't push, shove, or fight back in any other way.
edited 23rd May '12 2:43:24 PM by Barkey
They say no weapons of any kind, so I'd assume not.
I do want to do something like that though. I need to look into which colleges have Humans Vs Zombies.
Doesn't mean I won't front kick one in the heat of battle.
Just talked about it to my friend, we're thinking we could get a full squad of Guardsmen, and all focus on protecting and crowding on one guy who is meant to survive.
I'm not afraid of zombies though, all the really fast people will sign up to be humans, not zombies. I can outpace most of them I bet.
edited 23rd May '12 3:03:06 PM by Barkey

Double post. Sorry. That DARPA stuff is scary. My usual song that plays when I read this kind of article is playing in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xryhm6YVhk
Because I know that some mad general in the Pentagon got a Terminator endoskeleton built back in the Nineties. Now they are making the skin for it.