Want a Flying Car?

If you've ever ridden point vehicle down a road with IED's you would say this is spot on. My sons are Marines, I had a good freind almost die in an IED attack. I would love to make IED's obsolete. I say press on. Some would say why not just go to an air war and forget ground troops, but you can't hold territory and deny it to an enemy without boots on the ground. War is 3 dimentional, lets fight to win by keeping our guys alive and letting the enemy die for what they believe in.

Sounds like a massive money pit. Why? It would probably be relatively easy to have a trip wire trip with air pressure - and they wouldn't need to be imbedded in the road so concealment would be easier. Besides, we already have helicopters. There is no way to forcibly hold and control a hostile native population short of spending massive amounts of our treasury. We need to make people in the Middle East and elsewhere our "friends" to resolve these conflicts and you can't do that with bullets.

This is still in the "warp drive" category - it would be great to have it, but at this point it isn't quite physically practical. Look at the Moller Skycar - under development for 40 years, and apparently the best it can do is hover 15 feet AGL. That's the closest thing I know of to this concept.

It may be more workable to attach a helicopter-like apparatus to a light-weight road vehicle - something like a small version of the Sikorsky Skycrane with rotors that fold for transport and storage like those on Navy helicopters. This would be a fly-by-wire machine operated by a pilot in the vehicle. Sorry, DARPA, it would still require a specially trained operator, but at least it could be built. And for my fellow taxpayers, I warn you it won't be cheap.

Re the IED's
I always seem to have "obvious " ideas, which no one else entertains?
But, in truth, I probably don't understand the problems fully.

For example. If I had to walk anywhere, knowing it was littered with
these horrendous IED things, the idea of a flying car is nice but costly.
Possible; (an anachronism) but would the military spend that money on me!

e.g. I would think of: the point man pushing a (round) 5 gallon plastic drum
full of water in front of him. (like a garden roller) I would even make a remote
controlled (powered) one. (like a radio controlled car) or ask the military for one!
If it blew up, at worst hit with a bit of plastic, or get a refreshing shower!

If I had no say at all (PFC) I would probably make my own flick-up 6 inch stilts,
to lesson the odds on my actually touching one! (like folding stiletto heels)
and the countless other ideas in my mind to combat these horrors.

jt.

Even if I'm useless, I'm not; as I can be used as an example of uselessness.