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Robot air attack squadron bound for Iraq
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Posted on 07/15/2007 11:32:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: operation clinton cleanup

Here's a pic of one with the Blue Oyster Cult logo photoshopped on.

41 posted on 07/15/2007 2:47:32 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Hoplite; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; Auntbee; Shimmer128; ...
RE:

This thread is worthless... without my pic!

I beg... your pardon!

This thread is worthless... without MY pic!

Get your own... alter-ego!

Might I suggest... Oh, say that sissy C3P0!

Can he say that, R2D2?

!¸.·´¯)¸.·´¯) *øø¤º°°º¤ø... ,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,* (¯´·.¸(¯´·.!

Oh, he can... 'cause it is his post.

Then sign us up on Free Republic... and I'll give him the devil in over six million forms of communication!

Come on, girly'bot... I got my gaydar up and running!

Is is so sad... when robots fall out...


42 posted on 07/15/2007 2:52:35 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: uglybiker
LOL! Movies like that were from the days when people were easily entertained. I loved them at the time.

I wonder why they gave that robot a sphinx style headress?
43 posted on 07/15/2007 2:53:00 PM PDT by mutley
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To: Sub-Driver
Uh Oh!


44 posted on 07/15/2007 2:55:36 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Mariner
They will be closing shop as they have been informed there'll be NO NEW manned combat aircraft.

Does that mean our future pilots will be those who have logged thousands of hours playing flight simulator games on Xbox, Sony PlayStation, on the pc, etc.?

If that is the case, my dream of flying for the Navy may still come true for me! Perhaps now my lousy vision won't matter to recruiters!

45 posted on 07/15/2007 2:56:59 PM PDT by eekitsagreek (I'm NUTS for Sprague Grayden!!!)
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To: wastedyears
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult.
46 posted on 07/15/2007 3:04:20 PM PDT by Blue State Insurgent (FRee your mind.)
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To: csvset

That looks like a nice toy? How much?


47 posted on 07/15/2007 3:07:01 PM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
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To: csvset
Here's a pic of one with the Blue Oyster Cult logo photoshopped on.

LOL! Perfect!

48 posted on 07/15/2007 3:09:38 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: Sub-Driver
Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq IRAN
49 posted on 07/15/2007 3:09:58 PM PDT by badpacifist (If your ass won't move there may be an angel in the way .... Numbers 22:21-34)
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To: Bender2
I apologize for nothing!
50 posted on 07/15/2007 3:17:39 PM PDT by Hoplite
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To: Sub-Driver

Need much smaller versions that can sneak into the men’s rooms in the Parliment building in Tehran and similar places.


51 posted on 07/15/2007 3:22:52 PM PDT by Grateful One
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To: wastedyears
From the article..

General Atomics of San Diego has built at least nine of the MQ-9s thus far, at a cost of $69 million per set of four aircraft, with ground equipment.

52 posted on 07/15/2007 3:52:59 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Mariner
Which does not jibe with the USAF pulling out of JUCAS, moving the next MANNED bomber in by 10 years

Then again, our brethren in blue were always a little schizoid

53 posted on 07/15/2007 4:12:09 PM PDT by Starwolf
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Re: I apologize for nothing!

Gad! Just as I expected... You are too damned lazy to post your own pic!

Well, here... it is.

Now, shape up... or ship out!

BTW Psssst? Hoplite, don't mean to intrude... but might I suggest you use a hoplite as you alter-ego?

Such as...

http://www.christybeall.com/images/greek_small.jpg

No way, Dr. Z... Hoplite wants authenticity.

Like this... with both his hop and his lite hanging out!

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Sterile/Images/hoplite.jpg

Gadzooks... I just love this place!

54 posted on 07/15/2007 4:21:02 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: KarlInOhio
Plus 15 or 20-G turns in air combat or to evade a SAM are a lot easier when the pilot isn't there to complain that his neck just snapped.

Not with this one, you'd snap the wings off.

And it's slow, meat for anyone with real fighter planes, and not real maneuverable like the A-10 is. No Gun either. The Syrians and Iranians have real fighters for instance.

Still this is "just" a modified surveillance drone. The next generation will be able to do those things.

55 posted on 07/15/2007 4:22:12 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: mutley
I wonder why they gave that robot a sphinx style headress?

Probably a heat sink for the electronic "brain".

56 posted on 07/15/2007 4:24:03 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Grateful One
Need much smaller versions that can sneak into the men’s rooms in the Parliment building in Tehran and similar places.

Those are coming too. They can be disguised as a large insect, so no one in *those* heads would give it second look.

57 posted on 07/15/2007 4:26:23 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Mariner
"They will be closing shop as they have been informed there'll be NO NEW manned combat aircraft."

The "air" in "aircraft" being the key...

Human pilots will move upstream to sub-orbital, then to orbital fighters. In the meantime, we'll see nations slug it out via swarms of thousands of UCAVs.

58 posted on 07/15/2007 4:29:24 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: operation clinton cleanup; Sub-Driver
That's Don't Fear the FReeper.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

59 posted on 07/15/2007 4:31:51 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: uglybiker

60 posted on 07/15/2007 4:32:07 PM PDT by Radix (Why do they call them Morons when they do not know so much? Shouldn't they be called Lessons?)
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