Build a cruise missile in your garage!
This guy's attempt didn't work out but it's only a matter of time.
Build a cruise missile in your garage!
This guy's attempt didn't work out but it's only a matter of time.
Which is why one has to wonder about this;
The PackBot's destruction may have prevented the IED from claiming a soldier's life—as of 31 August, IEDs accounted for nearly half of the 3299 combat deaths reported by coalition forces. But the fact remains that a US $100 000 piece of machinery was done in by what was probably a few dollars' worth of explosives, most likely triggered using a modified cellphone, a garage-door opener, or even a toy's remote control.
When excellent remote control model cars are available for a thousand dollars or less and wireless digital cameras are out there for a few hundred dollars why are we paying $100K for a backpack robot to investigate a road side bomb?
Even if this robot has special capabilities a cheaper version could be sent in first.
No doubt this is a product of some industry in John Murtha’s district.
That guy is a nutjob/theif, well known and ridiculed in the pulsejet community. He’s lucky someone didn’t take him out and kill him.
He stole a bunch of money from people who bought his pulsejets.
You could load a lot more demo into a Cessna or a Learjet, and use commercial off the shelf avionics/GPS to steer that sucker right into the target of your choice, give or take 30 feet.