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Boeing Bird of Prey Stealth Fighter
An anonymous submitter writes: "Revealed: Boeings new secret stealth bat-plane! For years stealthchasers (those guys who sneak around secret USAF test bases in search of secret aircraft) knew the Bird Of Prey existed. They knew it was being tested over the secluded Nellis Air Force Base ranges in Nevada. They knew what hangar it was being secreted away in at Nellis (on the northeast corner) and they even managed to obtain a squadron patch depicting the aircraft itself!... but the government still denied its existance until today. At a ceremony at Boeing's St Louis plant their super-secret Bird Of Prey batplane was revealed today for the world to see and marvel at. You can view exclusive photos of it at popsci.com and projectblack.net."
... it's a plane, it's...
(bombs exploding everywhere)
[Tango 2 to Mother Hen, The egg is in the basket]
mechanicos ergo cogito
How many Pepsi points do I need for this bad boy?
:P
so... this gives new meaning to the words, "TO THE BAT PLANE".
These guys can find out about secret jets, get proof of there existance, all the while the government denies its existance.
Yet, I can't even find matching socks.
That's interesting. I wonder what other "denied" stuff is actually true.
So is it Romulan or Klingon?
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Two sites using the same exclusive pictures. Giving the word "exclusive" an entirely new meaning...
This thing is cool looking! I'm glad that when this military technology evolves into sentience, takes over the world and demands our obedience - at least our new robot masters will look cool - imagine if the French military tech involved into instead: We'd all be cow-towing to puce colored fag-robots.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
I can now proudly proclaim I am a Star Trek fan in public!
The bird of prey is so damned cool even the military tried to mimic it... all you star wars fans were crazy! Lasers in space... HA! Klingons RULE!
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
In a multibillion dollar aircraft:
Nananananana BAT-PLANE... BAT-PLANE... BAT-PLANE!!!... OVER. *pssh*
Any chance this thing has been buzzing Manokotak?
Worst. Sig. Ever!
It's a good start, but until they can make a plane that care survive a slashdotting, then I'm not riding.
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Now we know what those people saw in Alaska! (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/ 17/1219240&mode=flat&tid=134)
-- Cheers!
but is it the prototype model that can shoot while cloaked, and if so does that mean the pilot has to have an eye patch bolted to his face?
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Bird the Size of a Plane Spotted in Alaska
No "Beowolf cluster" jokes about these?
./ing them?
How about something about Boeing running their webserver off of a Bird of Prey and the fact that we are
A South Park Underpants Gnome list?
Geesh - I know its Friday, but I have high expectations of you all!
really? even better! it runs in the family!
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Sure does. I saw it on the USAF's tour of top-secret aircraft last month (no flash photography, please).
It just isn't the same military anymore since the Freedom of Information Act.
Really?
I thought it was the way to change your status to "Dead".
Hmmmm, WB has a new show called "Birds of Prey." Boeing acknowledges existance of their new fighter "bird of prey." WB.com says hope comes in the unlikely form of a trio of beautiful and relentless heroines, so I guess these Dawson's Creek kiddies are going to fly around in these badass jets stopping evil-doers, (just like our military, I'm starting to get the idea)
:)
Who says WB shows are lame!
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
And getting slower. I think we just /.ed a Bird of Prey. Now it's decloaking...firing a torpedo...S*1T![carrier lost]
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
They would be "puce colored fag-robots", but they could only do two things: surrender, or run away. :)
<jedi>This is not the classified aircraft you are looking for.</jedi>
Damn, I was hoping this was about the über-large, super-low-speed, really gigantic, maybe-helium-inflated, possibly-heavy-duty-troop-transport aircraft previoulsy reported (several times) on Slashdot.
Now, that would be killer. I'm really very disapointed here.
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
I thought it was the way to change your status to "Dead".
/.
No... That's only if you flame Apple on
:P
I've heard more stories about strippers playing with his "lobes" than I care to.
And you call yourself a NERD! No self-respecting geek could get enough Star Trek related erotic stories! Sheesh...
GMD
watch this
Oh.. wait.. never mind, the page loaded.
Popular Science has long been the media tool of the U.S. Miltary/Industrial Complex.
Cool! Amazing Toys.
Or maybe someone just tossed a violin over your freakin' house.
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
Funny, I thought living by Area 51 and spying on the Air Force was the ticket to getting your status changed to "radio personality."
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Can we get a "+1 Geeky" moderation?
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
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Now that we got the governament to admit that there is indeed a secret stealth fighter called "bird of pray", something we knew all along, I would like to be the first to start the rumour that there is in fact no such thing as a "bird of pray" stealth fighter.
Look at those pictures will ya, I could have done a better job using Photoshop. Sheesh, the thing doesn't even have a laser cannon. And everyone knows that secret fighterjets are black, not regular-fighterjet gray.
What's really going to bake your noddle later on is, did I just expose my ignorance of Star Trek, or, did I intentionally make the error to bring trekkies out of the woodwork?
:-)
I suppose spelling noodle wrong was also intentional?
I would like to try her but there's that whole order of protection thingy.
Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
I thought it was the way to change your status to "Dead".
Death is but one of the perks having your name changed to "Enemy combatant" entails.
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
I was living in Virginia near in the Tidewater area-- lots of military bases. I went out my front door for some reason looked up and saw a slowly moving, very large configuration of light colored objects. My mind interpreted it as an array of landing lights on a large V shaped plane. I got scared for a second because it must have been less than 10 feet above my roof, maybe 30 feet above my head and HUGE. It was also completely quiet. I got a fright. It was either a UFO or a huge unpowered military plane was going to crash on my front lawn.
A second later I heard a quiet HONK (just one). Then it was like a switch was thrown in my brain and I saw it was just the white bellies of a bunch of geese coming into a landing in the marshes behind the houses across the street.
A little birdie told me this,
current keyhole resolution: ~30cm or 1 inch (!)
Surely you mean 30mm. Or maybe NASA did the metric conversion for this too...
"The other night as I was driving home... I had a couple miles to go, when all of a sudden, I saw a great orange light - to the east! When I came to, I was home. What do you think happened to me?" -Colonol Cambell, MGS2
Yup...
Yawn! I see a stealthy pea shooter that you can STILL see on infrared and heat sensors, and it still gives a very small radar signature.
Now when the military has a protoculture driven aircraft like the VF1-Valkyrie that can recongure into Guardian or Battloid mode, then you will have my undivided attention.
Its been around since the late 60s, test driven by Sally Fields if I'm not mistaken...prototype?
This whole discussion lends credence to my theory that 90% of the reason we have wars is because we (primarily the males of the species) like making cool stuff to blow things up with.
:)
(I say this not at as any kind criticism, merely an observation, since my reaction to this plane is pretty much "COOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!"...)
You gotta wonder if the first time some guy stabbed a Mastodon with a pointed stick a bunch of other guys like us crowded around him saying "Ohh! Look at the sharpened point! Hey, I bet he could hit something with one of those at twenty, thirty feet!"