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250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan
Toe, The writes "Gizmodo details the Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) (based on the P-791), a spyship from US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command capable of hovering at 20,000 feet. Planned for deployment in Afghanistan, the ship can float for three weeks and carry well over a ton of payload, apparently surveillance equipment. The video on Gizmodo of the P-791 shows that these ships are a hybrid not only of both buoyancy and propulsive lift, but also of both awe and hilarity."
With this new Imperial Probe Droid those rebels don't stand a chance!!!!
Nice headline! "250-Foot Hybrid Airship To Spy Over Afghanistan In" - in what? In November? In 2010? In next ten years? In mission to provide big target in sky? In huge ball of flames? In super-secret mission that no-one knows about?
After painting evil elephant faces on them, and adding mini-gun trunks.
Oh, to be an (telecommuting) operator. Sitting at a bar in Georgetown, gunning down bad guys with your own killer-flying-elephant, half a world away.
He takes his nick from a well known military genious who has repeatedly chosen a third option in such situations: fight until death, but don't count on backup
The crew of the airship has been made available to the public, the Army has recruited a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes brought together under impossible circumstances from completely different backgrounds and cultures including:
-Guy with tough exterior yet internally continues on a never ending journey of soul searching
-Hot chick who uses her hotness to tame the tough exterior of soul searching boy
-Underage girl with mysterious supernatural abilities
-Relatively hot chick who doesn't know she's hot and hangs out with guys that have obvious emotional problems
-Overly cool guy who is infatuated with himself to hook up with any of these girls on the ship
-Random tough guy who is there to do man tasks like open jars and move furniture for all these emo boys and girls
-Some non-human creature that nobody really knows why is even there in the first place
-Pilot, named Cid, reportedly just completed rehab for alcoholism and a gambling addiction.
Master, master
This is recorded through a fly's ear
And you have to have a fly's eye to see it
It's the thing that's gonna make Captain Beefheart
And his magic band fat
Frank, it's the big hit ! It's the blimp !
It's the blimp, Frank ! It's the blimp !
Squirrel!
As for the LEMV: a 40-foot long, 15-foot wide area behind the only sometimes-manned cockpit will carry intelligence systems, like radar and wide-area motion sensors, that will beam information back to commanders on the ground.
sometimes-manned.
"Guys, I had to parachute down to get some more water supplies and left the thing running at 20,000 feet. How do I get back up?"
29 mpg. YMMV.
He takes his nick from a well known military genious who has repeatedly chosen a third option in such situations: fight until death, but don't count on backup
My cat ?
I like your thinking to the point where the mere thought of having mod points sends little rivers of anticipation running down my inseam.
Thunderbirds are go!
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
And now an airship with three buttocks.
From down here it looks like a participle!
Call Nick Fury at SHIELD, find out how big he wants his.
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They totally need to paint this thing pink and give it ears and a tail like a pig. That would be the most awesome military aircraft ever.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Probably the lead project manager's name is Cid
The best bet seems to be an AA battery, but I've not seen any indication that anyone in the region has AA.
You can find AA batteries in any drugstore. Why shouldn't you be able to find them in Afghanistan?