ginnyg2
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Post by ginnyg2 on Apr 25, 2024 10:58:29 GMT
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 12:48:22 GMT
What it could be used for and what it will be used for are often two different things. I think it is a spy plane myself and part of the US military industrial complex. They only tell you this shit because it is your taxes funding it. |
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Post by Orac on Apr 25, 2024 12:52:30 GMT
I imagine it will be used to follow Tommy Robinson about as he visits various pubs and cafes
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 12:59:25 GMT
I imagine it will be used to follow Tommy Robinson about as he visits various pubs and cafes I was thinking they will send them over to photograph the Uyghur's Nazi death camps so they can be saved from the chopstick people. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 25, 2024 13:27:05 GMT
With such a small payload and slow speed I cant think what this aircraft might be used for other than, as you say, high altitude spying. $15 million for a modern version of the U2. Good value? Who knows. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 13:36:49 GMT
With such a small payload and slow speed I cant think what this aircraft might be used for other than, as you say, high altitude spying. $15 million for a modern version of the U2. Good value? Who knows. Some US politician held up a small bag of bushes which he said the US defence sector was billing the taxpayer $90 000 for. A Chinese man replied on social media that his internet shop was selling the same bushes for approximately a quid each (7 RMB) . The bag contained about 20 of them. |
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Post by Bentley on Apr 25, 2024 14:36:45 GMT
A slow , extreme high altitude , long range eye in the sky ? There must a potential with that .
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 15:03:07 GMT
A slow , extreme high altitude , long range eye in the sky ? There must a potential with that . The idea has been kicking around for a while. It's just these days we have more efficient solar cells and lighter stronger materials to reduce the weight. It's the same thing with drones. Drones could have been invented much earlier if we had the storage capacity of modern lithium batteries. Back in the 70s everyone used Nicads. |
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Post by Bentley on Apr 25, 2024 15:15:29 GMT
A slow , extreme high altitude , long range eye in the sky ? There must a potential with that . The idea has been kicking around for a while. It's just these days we have more efficient solar cells and lighter stronger materials to reduce the weight. It's the same thing with drones. Drones could have been invented much earlier if we had the storage capacity of modern lithium batteries. Back in the 70s everyone used Nicads. I suppose a lot if ideas are kicking around and will be until technology catches up. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 25, 2024 15:22:26 GMT
A slow , extreme high altitude , long range eye in the sky ? There must a potential with that . Well yes, but that's what they said about the U2 spy plane, 60 years ago. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 15:23:11 GMT
The idea has been kicking around for a while. It's just these days we have more efficient solar cells and lighter stronger materials to reduce the weight. It's the same thing with drones. Drones could have been invented much earlier if we had the storage capacity of modern lithium batteries. Back in the 70s everyone used Nicads. I suppose a lot if ideas are kicking around and will be until technology catches up. Yes, and including some from our dear government. Thought crimes would be impossible to police unless we had an internet, mobile phones and AI chips in the phones. You see why they wetted themselves over technology. |
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Post by Bentley on Apr 25, 2024 15:25:14 GMT
A slow , extreme high altitude , long range eye in the sky ? There must a potential with that . Well yes, but that's what they said about the U2 spy plane, 60 years ago. I believe that was faster than this one , had a pilot and couldn’t stay in the sky as long . |
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Post by Vinny on Apr 25, 2024 15:49:08 GMT
What it could be used for and what it will be used for are often two different things. I think it is a spy plane myself and part of the US military industrial complex. They only tell you this shit because it is your taxes funding it. Deterring Russian and Chinese military expansionism. Shooting down Chinese spy balloons. Bombing bastards if a NATO country is ever invaded. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Apr 25, 2024 16:02:52 GMT
What it could be used for and what it will be used for are often two different things. I think it is a spy plane myself and part of the US military industrial complex. They only tell you this shit because it is your taxes funding it. Deterring Russian and Chinese military expansionism. Shooting down Chinese spy balloons. Bombing bastards if a NATO country is ever invaded. |
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Post by Vinny on Apr 26, 2024 21:09:35 GMT
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." George Orwell.
If we didn't have such people ready to do violence on our behalf, we'd have rough men ready to do violence to us, to impose tyranny.
It isn't warmongering to stand up to warmongers.
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