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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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???
You can get one from the army base, if you take one home, one piece at a time.
It looks like a 4-wheeled “mule” ...
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.
Nappy must be lickin’ her lips.
“In any case....I want one. Civilian models??? “
Yup! It’s called a Jeep.
Hopefully those transverse hoop structures can be raised up after unloading the vehicle. Gotta have a roll cage on something like this for sure.
I think the twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns are a nice touch.
I would just as soon have my 41 MB.
Four wheel steering? WhY?
How much are they each?
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.
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%.
Exactly. The Hummer is nice out in the wide open desert but around here would need a D8 to trailblaze.
Marine Corps mules.
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.
That’s one of the reasons I like revolvers so much. I haven’t had to buy brass in years.
Anything is fine.......until the artillery starts to fall.
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