I was just thinking about breaking my idea in half. Hunter-Killer setup style, keep your predator/reaper drones with a couple hellfires on em, build a new “attack and CAS” drone, similar to how the A-10 was built around the GAU-8, build this around a big gun, just ya know, a smaller one.

I like the concept of datalinked hunter-killer pairs, something like a cargo aircraft the size of a V-22 Osprey, with a turret mounted 60mm cannon, 25mm gatling gun, and loaded up with guided munitions as the “killer” with Global Hawks and Predator’s above and nearby providing targeting. Commanders on the ground could…

Thats what some of the AF Brass wants to happen... because wasting the hundred million dollar jet’s airframe hours at $42,000 per hour, when they don’t even have the endurance for CAS is definitely a good idea...

Hehehe... Yay...

Unmanned is a given I think, but it really doesn’t need to be lame does it?

I really want to know what the next gen attack aircraft would look like... Basically the mission of the A-10, CAS at all costs. What would change?

Will do.

Lol, I’m 27...

Are all of their items thoroughly searched, including all pockets, sub compartments, liquid containers, etc, are you sure that machine pistol parts aren’t being smuggled in by multiple parties for assembly inside the venue? Are you checking that the handle of that cooler isn’t concealing the disguised barrel of a gun…

Or just driving that RV full of explosives into a security line as people try to get in... then detonating once first responders get there to help the initial victims.

Now that’s an effective deterrent to terrorism.

Real quick, how’s the security at a NASCAR event compare to that done by the TSA?

Yes, Twithead is incorrect, a few people with some handguns can’t stop a terrorist, especially if they don’t care if they survive. That said, the levels of saturation you’re thinking of are extremely small.

Yes. Stef’s right, Nascar ban’s guns, but its totally ineffective, rules are followed by the law abiding. And no Posobiec’s an idiot still, there’s no terrorism at NASCAR races is probably survivorship bias. There’s no terrorism at a lot of places, thing is in a high threat environment where terrorists were looking…

I’ve got limited exposure, but my experience at COTA was they looked in only the main pocket of my bag, and said go ahead. Didn’t even shuffle contents around. the other pockets are plenty large enough for a full sized handgun and multiple magazines, or as much as probably 4kg of explosives. Compare that to where the…

oh fudge...

While they may be banned at racetracks, unless every person goes through a metal detector and has all of their items searched, there’s no way in hell to stop firearms/knives/explosives from entering. I further guarantee, a motivated person could figure out a way to either sneak something in, pre-position it prior to…

Now I really want to see an F1 car do Pikes Peak...

Yeah, v2 should do the human style “heft” of a new object to analyze it. Hand someone a moderately unusual sports ball, like an american football to someone from outside the US, they’re likely to turn it around in their hands a few times, gently throw it from one hand to the other, etc. This is their brain analyzing a…

The most effective way to “prove” to a denier that climate change is an issue, is the national defense argument... If that can’t get it through Trump’s thick head, I don’t know what can.