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Predator C Avenger Revealed, Now Kills Kills Faster Faster

Posted April 23, 2009 3:10 PM

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These are the first images of the stealthy Predator C Avenger in flight. With a 66-foot wingspan, the latest and deadliest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle yet can fly for 20 hours powered by its jet engine. Made by General Atomics (Taking Over The World Really Soon Now™), the Avenger uses a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW545B powerplant capable of delivering 400 knots (740km/h) at 60,000 feet. This is the same turbofan engine on the Cessna Citation XLS business jet. Unlike the Citation, however, this angel of destruction can load 3,000 pounds of weapons in its fully internal bay. The bay is internal to match the rest of its stealthy design which—like the F-22 Raptor or the F-35 Lightning II—has no sharp angle differences between surfaces to reduce its radar signature. Also like the F-35, this perfect flying machine can also carry a foward-looking infrared sensors adapted from the the Joint Strike Fighter. The cost of the robotic fighter is probably between ten dollars and a zillion gazillion euros, but it will make trips to enemy bases to deliver bombs and missiles for free.

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04/23/2009 4:14 PM

The cost of the robotic fighter is probably between ten dollars and a zillion gazillion euros, but it will make trips to enemy bases to deliver bombs and missiles for free.

...randomly, or on allies, as usual

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04/23/2009 10:58 PM

well now they can say it was a software glitch

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04/24/2009 10:24 AM

An age old problem. Having pilots in the cockpit doesn't prevent mistakes either.

Information management becomes key to preventing fratracide and targeting errors. But let's remember folks, Clauswitz spoke of the fog of war and its effects. That was 200 years ago and despite technological advances and procedural improvements it still plays a part in any conflict.

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04/24/2009 10:52 AM

This tech is amazing and very cool. But it is very chilling that the sole purpose of this machine is to destroy and kill en masse.

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04/24/2009 4:18 PM

I think a version of this is used in the movie Eagle Eye

and it is chilling.

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04/24/2009 3:56 PM

now if they make a ps3 version of the control software we can all drop high explosives on each other from the comfort of our own (soon to be exploded) living rooms... Ahhh, technology, making it easier to accidentally ruin friendships

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04/26/2009 9:19 PM

Like the Orson Scot card book ender Winn's?

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04/26/2009 10:15 PM

Ender Winn's? I've read Ender's Game, Xenophobe, Speaker for the Dead and Ender's Shadow, I know there are more but Winn's is not one I've seen...

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04/27/2009 12:14 AM

Ender's Game that is the one, sorry used the Dutch Title

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