Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile

innocent_white_lamb writes "The Canadian military is currently testing a $620,000 hybrid-electric stealth snowmobile. Testing includes speed, towing capacity, endurance, mobility, usability, and of course, noise emissions. The testing and most other information about the stealth snowmobile is secret and very little information has been released other than the fact that it does exist. One document reads 'The noise level of an internal combustion engine cannot be reduced to an acceptable level for missions where covertness may be required, especially given the increased propagation of sound in cold, dry, Arctic air.' Therefore, National Defence's research agency is 'pursuing the development of a "silent" snowmobile for winter operations in Canada, specifically in the Arctic.' Michael Byers, an Arctic policy expert, questions the need for a stealth snowmobile. 'I don't see a whole lot of evidence that criminals and terrorists are scooting around Canada's North on snowmobiles and that we have to sneak up on them,' he said."

Comments

They did the impossible!

[Dj Stingray]

Step 1.

Paint it white.

Step 2.

Have a beer eh!

Three Canadians are in a boat fishing

[Anonymous Coward]

One of them falls in and sinks. Another one goes in and pulls him back into the boat and starts giving him mouth-to-mouth. He stops and says "Phew! I don't remember Stosh smelling this bad!". And the other one says, "Yeah, and I don't remember him wearing a snowmobile suit, either."

Re:Three Canadians are in a boat fishing

[VortexCortex]

He found it grating, eh?

Tonight on Top Gear

[Velex]

I attempt to cross Nunavut in a Range Rover. Captain Slow takes a rather novel approach. And Hammond uses a state of the art stealth /snow mobile/. Tonight on Top Gear. *cue theme*

Re:Tonight on Top Gear

[Shadow of Eternity]

And then halfway through they completely fake the snowmobile failing and spend the rest of the episode poo pooing it over something that never actually happened.

Re:Has Sarah Palin been alerted?

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

No, but her IQ does.

Re:Canada soon invades the US

[Khashishi]

Don't worry, we are already working on a defense, called global warming.

Re:I am just so proud of my government right now..

[gandhi_2]

Quonset hut, you fucking retard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut

Re:Cross Country Skiing

[gandhi_2]

Yes. I was a hired mercenary for the dark ubergovernment of illuminati jews involved in countless illegal wars to advance the agenda of... i forget who. they gave us this big briefing and explained it all but they lost me when they started talking about how the CIA / Kennedys was trying to kill all the Christians AND topple the Godless regimes too. The intro video was good though.

Anywho... on the topic of military equipment and its use in advancing my jew banker / ubergovernment christian / corpotocracy / and communist new world order (which is tricky, as you can imagine) I would think my opinion SHOULD carry a little bit of weight. More so than say... yet another batshit insane conspiracy theorist or arctic policy expert. At least as it pertains to the ground soldier.

The strategic maple syrup reserve...

[vjoel]

This is how they protect that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Quebec_Maple_Syrup_Producers#Strategic_reserve