New and Improved - SmarTruck II

jmoriarty writes "The Army's next generation SmarTruck is on display in Detroit. The original version of the SmarTruck was covered back in May, but the Army now admits that version was 'hardly ready for the real world'. Apparently the real world version needed interchangable nodules, and the absolute must-have for every Slashdotter's vehicle - a 'hacker in a box'."

Comments

Re:Is it me...

[Master Bait]

I think the Army would do a lot better and a lot cheaper if they had farmed out the job to the people at Monster Garage. But then it wouldn't be so much fun for them, I suppose.

Personally, I think the regular army is full of cowardly, fat-assed pussys. Everytime something dangerous comes up, such as the war with Afghanistan and the ever-pending war with Iraq, the Army calls up reserves and National Guard to do the real fighting. There are 1.4 million people in the regular armed forces, but when they need a force of 20,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, they call up the reserves. Most of the people in the reserves and National Guard are married with kids, etc. What's up with that?

Re:Is it me...

[kruczkowski]

You are right. The military is run by kids who think they can kick anyones ass.