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Drone named after the Terminator demonstrates warfare abilities by dropping a torpedo from mid-air
Daily Mail UK ^ | 4 October 2023 | By STACY LIBERATORE

Posted on 10/04/2023 12:39:49 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/04/2023 12:39:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Note that the T-600 was a primitive Terminator. Arnold was a T-800. And in Terminator 2 he faced a liquid metal T-1000.


2 posted on 10/04/2023 12:42:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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Not sue this is good news for a country that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on surface ships.


4 posted on 10/04/2023 12:45:31 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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Looks like a great way for those surface battle groups to defend against submarines.


5 posted on 10/04/2023 12:51:06 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Reverend Wright
Not sue this is good news for a country that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on surface ships.

A $50K mine can disable or destroy a billion dollar ship.

6 posted on 10/04/2023 12:55:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: NorthMountain

Or for submarines to attack surface ships from over the horizon distances.


7 posted on 10/04/2023 12:58:56 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

not really ...


8 posted on 10/04/2023 1:08:59 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Steely Tom

A twenty-five cent bullet can disable or destroy a multi-million dollar soldier.


9 posted on 10/04/2023 1:10:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Oh goody cheaper ways to kill people !!!


10 posted on 10/04/2023 1:18:50 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

As long as we’re referencing movies.
At least it can only go 87 MPH, so we don’t have to worry about time travel. 😥


11 posted on 10/04/2023 1:29:32 PM PDT by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: Red Badger

Modernized DASH system.


12 posted on 10/04/2023 1:42:35 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: ClearCase_guy

Hasta la vista baby


13 posted on 10/04/2023 1:43:35 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Red Badger
The electric-powered, car-sized T-600 has a payload capacity of 441 pounds, tops speeds of 87 miles per hour and has a range of up to 50 miles.

Sounds like it clearly under performs even a WWII Jap Zero.

At 87 MPH might as well shout PULL when you launch the thing. Our tax dollars at work.

14 posted on 10/04/2023 2:20:16 PM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Red Badger

This is not new. We had DASH helicopters that carried torpedos on my destroyer, DD-752, the Alfred A Cunningham in the 1960’s.


15 posted on 10/04/2023 2:44:05 PM PDT by jack308
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To: NorthMountain

https://www.nbcnews.com/technology/what-lurks-beneath-sea-navy-launches-drone-submerged-submarine-2D11702851


16 posted on 10/04/2023 2:58:06 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Red Badger

At least it’s faster than a PT Boat.


17 posted on 10/04/2023 3:01:04 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Reverend Wright

Cute, but a lot less “new” than nbcnews dot com (spit) would have you believe.


18 posted on 10/04/2023 3:17:45 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Reverend Wright
Many but not all surface ships carry helicopters to assist with ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare).

This would give surface combatants that have no air component, or unserviceable air component, an airborne ASW assist.

Give the little goober some GPS coordinates for the drop and send it out. The torp goes active after launch, finds the bad guy and makes him a permanent part of the ocean floor.

19 posted on 10/04/2023 4:16:15 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Chode

Have You been teaching the neighborhood kids how to have fun again ?


20 posted on 10/04/2023 9:12:39 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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