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Meet Boeing’s Phantom Badger light tactical vehicle
Fox News ^ | 05/22/2013 | By Antti Kautonen

Posted on 05/22/2013 4:28:01 PM PDT by Carbonsteel

The Phantom Badger isn't a children's cartoon superhero, or something that creeps up to your house at night and messes up your garbage. No, it's the latest ground tactical vehicle from Boeing, and it looks downright awesome, in a butch golf cart sort of way.

The V22 Internally Transportable Vehicle, as the official nomenclature goes, has been developed with the help of MSI Defense Solutions, reportedly employing NASCAR racing technologies with the vehicle. It's Boeing's proposal for a vehicle able to be internally transported inside a V-22 Osprey tilt rotor, but is more capable and more sturdily built than an ATV.

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This looks like the Jeep replacement the military should have had 30 years ago.

Not that the Humvee wasn't capable. Just always seems to have been over sized and expensive for the task at hand.

In any case....I want one. Civilian models???

1 posted on 05/22/2013 4:28:01 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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To: Carbonsteel

You can get one from the army base, if you take one home, one piece at a time.


2 posted on 05/22/2013 4:32:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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It looks like a 4-wheeled “mule” ...


3 posted on 05/22/2013 4:35:41 PM PDT by Ken522
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From Fox

4 posted on 05/22/2013 4:38:17 PM PDT by knarf (uals-two logic)
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...and is claimed to be "relatively comfortable" for what it is...

If that was spoken by a pampered automobile critic from Detroit, that'd be one thing, but if it was an iron-butt Tech Sergeant who spends his off hours roller-blading through the Hindu Kush with a full battle pack, quite another. I still want one.

5 posted on 05/22/2013 4:38:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Carbonsteel

Nappy must be lickin’ her lips.


6 posted on 05/22/2013 4:38:44 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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Man I was hoping it would be as bad assed as one of these!

7 posted on 05/22/2013 4:39:33 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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“In any case....I want one. Civilian models??? “


Yup! It’s called a Jeep.


8 posted on 05/22/2013 4:40:02 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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Hopefully those transverse hoop structures can be raised up after unloading the vehicle. Gotta have a roll cage on something like this for sure.


9 posted on 05/22/2013 4:41:52 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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Well, that IS pretty awesome.

I think the twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns are a nice touch.

10 posted on 05/22/2013 4:43:33 PM PDT by SIDENET
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To: Carbonsteel

I would just as soon have my 41 MB.

Four wheel steering? WhY?

How much are they each?


11 posted on 05/22/2013 4:46:02 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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My SIL works for Rolls Royce who makes the V-22 engines.
Last summer they had several on display at an open house event and then did the flyover for the Nascar race.

That airplane is a friggin’ mechanical nightmare.
God protect anybody who flies on one.


12 posted on 05/22/2013 4:46:24 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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Just try to find ammo. Local WalMart’s been fresh out of 23 mm for months now. BTT


13 posted on 05/22/2013 4:46:25 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Just try to find ammo. Local WalMart’s been fresh out of 23 mm for months now. BTT

And the gougers on gunbroker are marking it up 300%.

14 posted on 05/22/2013 4:49:32 PM PDT by SIDENET
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To: Carbonsteel

Exactly. The Hummer is nice out in the wide open desert but around here would need a D8 to trailblaze.


15 posted on 05/22/2013 4:51:58 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Ken522

Marine Corps mules.

16 posted on 05/22/2013 4:52:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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I talked to the clerk at wallyworld this afternoon.
He said they got some in but it was already gone.
I’d reload my own but the brass is sooooo expensive...
and black powder tends to clog the gas system.


17 posted on 05/22/2013 4:53:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SgtBob
Here's what I want:


18 posted on 05/22/2013 4:55:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tet68

That’s one of the reasons I like revolvers so much. I haven’t had to buy brass in years.


19 posted on 05/22/2013 4:56:48 PM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: Carbonsteel

Anything is fine.......until the artillery starts to fall.


20 posted on 05/22/2013 4:58:30 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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