I know...undead thread.
BTW I just posted here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2461922/posts?page=26#26
Posted on 02/26/2010 6:12:28 PM PST by wuxinghongqi
February 24, suddenly Chinese official media CCTV for the first time published shock screens of shooting down U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft in June 1958, to warn B-2 of the United Stites.
In these short-range high-definition screens, the moment of Sam missile into the sky shot down U-2 high-definition instant pictures are very stunning！
(Excerpt) Read more at wuxinghongqi.blogspot.com ...
I know...undead thread.
BTW I just posted here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2461922/posts?page=26#26
Great tagline, Dark!
yup, i saw the memo right after i posted...
Hee-hee!
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I’m headed off to watch the Blanket Show, kids.
Be good to yourselves and I’ll see you tomorrow.
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My concept of what a "steel spider tank" is is this: It's a tank that uses legs for locomotion, giving it the gait and appearance of a spider when moving.
For impact resistance, I'd want the body to have the shape of a flying saucer, two thin spherical sections with the various weapon muzzles able to rotate about so that any weapon can be brought to bear in any direction. Essentially, this makes the entire body a turret.
I especially like the idea of operating in desert climates, as the "spider tank" would have the ability to conceal itself under a thin covering of sand, in the manner of some undersea creatures.
It would have to be large, to accommodate a large-bore weapon or two, plus appropriate rocketry and pilotless drones. Machine guns of various calibers and laser weaponry optional.
I mentioned having a flight capability. Realistically, that would have to be a variant with much lighter armor, and ducted rotors around the periphery of the saucer shape. Yes, it would fly like a flying saucer, using counter-rotating rings to pull in air at the top surface, as well as the bottom surface, and expel it forcefully through ducted openings underneath. Its flight would not be silent, but it would be capable of vertical take-offs and landings.
The large gun would probably have to be sacrificed in favor of powerful rockets and anti-personnel weapons. Special defenses against anti-aircraft rockets and missiles would be implemented.
The two types of spider tanks would complement each other, having different roles to play in the combat theater.
For each, moving about on the ground would be relatively silent and stealthy. You would not hear them coming, unless they accelerated to "scurry mode", in which the legs operate at top speed, moving across virtually any terrain at greater than sixty miles per hour.
I like to think it was probably the bargain that she made for accepting all you changelings.
Got a bit occupied updating the work blog.
Aren't you losing some potential lift that way?
If your ring louvers are configured as airfoils, the bottom rotor is as much a lifting surface as the top one is, just as the bottom rotor of a similar helicopter design would be.
By pulling in the air to a central chamber, from which ducted exits allow hover and directional control, one avoids the instability that is shown in Möller's sky car "flying saucer" films.
Control surfaces on the rotating rings allow the craft to rapidly spin left or right, although tilt and bank would depend on the thrusters. In principle, one could do a quick tilt or bank by using these same control surfaces, in a "pinch" mode, so that the speed of the maneuver depends on the rotation rate of the rings, but this would be experimental, and quite likely very dangerous.
Rules, please.
Cheers!
But was it truly a bargain?
When my wife asks a question to which the answer is somewhat an imponderable, I respond, "Who can know such things?"
When you consider that your mom gave up having any kind of a normal life, for whatever benefit came from the deal that was struck, it's clear that a fondness for normalcy is not one of your family traits.
Ipso facto, you've found your way to the right place.
Awwwwwwww! So adorable!!
Thank you. Even at 5:00 am.
How are things in your time zone? Tsunami?
For our snow-covered FRiends ...
Er...thanks, but I’d be more impressed if you posted a pic of, say, Sean Connery, or Lawrence Olivier, or even Sean Astin. Even Viggo Mortensen....
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Yep, that works.
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