Posted on 08/31/2011 6:06:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
There is no technology, just a computer generated picture and someone trying to get into the tax payers wallet. Like this. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20071014&slug=favorfactory14m
LOL, it is amazing what kind of fake pictures you can make with a good computer.
Pathetic dodge...
Again, do you have some authoritative background that supports your assertion that this technology isn’t needed?
Your comment suggests that you don’t trust the military to be capable of determining what it is they need and that civilian, REMF desk jockeys are better positioned to do so.
Hmmm....
Getting rid of sticky water and reynolds number problems by eliminating the viscous flow? Rather than try to make the flow laminar, change the liquid, brilliant....
Hmmm...
Rumors of the B2 having some sort of charging device to change the flow characteristics of the air increasing fuel economy are not that dissimilar to this concept...
The design is a joke, if it were built, the force on the structure would rip the pontoon things off. It has no viable usages, and yes I have a miner in industrial engineering.
Ever hear of the term “proof of concept”? How do you know that’s the “final design”? Simple, you don’t.
A minor in industrial engineering still does not make you SME on mechanical engineering or the needs of our servicemembers.
You have no idea if the craft has any “viable uses”. You just don’t.
If our people need it to keep them safe, then so be it. Test it and buy it.
Have a great socialist workers party weekend.
Could be, but then again...
This is what they said about the Stryker, the F117, the F16, the F15, the A10 and on and on...”there’s no reason for this trash.” Until it’s needed and does the job it was designed to do better than what was expected. I suppose if we approached each and every program with that attitude, I’m sure we’d have nothing but the best equipment for our servicemembers and our national defense.
The military industrial complex (leftist term btw), gets RFP’s from the gov’t, not the other way around.
So I’m not buying into the handout comment. If there is a need, the military will buy it.
What if it does work and can save American lives? Is it still a “scam”?
Ad hominems?
Your cantankerous and objectionable attitude can go take a spin on the a-hole highway.
Good bye.
I am in the same class as old lefty Eisenhower, and proud to be.
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