From sea to sky: Submarines that fly


Tech | 207051 hits | Jul 05 6:12 am | Posted by: Scape
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GUILLEMOTS and gannets do it. Cormorants and kingfishers do it. Even the tiny insect-eating dipper does it. And if a plan by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) succeeds, a remarkable airplane may one day do it too: plunge ben

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  1. by avatar Public_Domain
    Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:46 pm
    :|

  2. by avatar GreenTiger
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:22 am
    Yes, Indeed mankind always had placed a premium on new and creative ways to kill people. It is a recession proof industry.

    What is important is that we develop them first before the "bad guys" do. In the old days the bag guys were the Nazis and Communists, today it's the Terrorists (Islamic and otherwise).

  3. by avatar Dragom
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:59 am
    It kinda sucks staying ahead of the technological curve with terrorists.

  4. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:14 am
    I doubt this is going to pay off with a workable prototype, but Im sure it will spawn some spin off tech that will do well in the private sector.

  5. by avatar KorbenDeck
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:55 am
    Adopt it to missile form, the missile flies thousands of miles towards target then when it gets close submerges to get past any anti missile defenses/detection.

  6. by avatar Guy_Fawkes
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 9:37 am
    "KorbenDeck" said
    Adopt it to missile form, the missile flies thousands of miles towards target then when it gets close submerges to get past any anti missile defenses/detection.

    I thought they already had something like that...

  7. by avatar BartSimpson Gold Member
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:17 pm
    "Guy_Fawkes" said
    Adopt it to missile form, the missile flies thousands of miles towards target then when it gets close submerges to get past any anti missile defenses/detection.

    I thought they already had something like that...


  8. by avatar SprCForr Gold Member
    Tue Jul 06, 2010 7:52 pm
    ^^^^^^^
    Coolest sub ever.



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