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Posted: Apr 28 2010 01:48 pm

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"The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015 U.S. soldiers will be able to ride into battle aboard a four-person flying car that can cruise in the air like an airplane, drive on the ground like an SUV, rove 250 miles on one tank of fuel and not require a runway to get airborne.

DARPA, the Department of Defense office that is tasked with exploring futuristic technologies that may have military applications, held an industry day workshop for companies earlier this year to solicit proposals for developing a prototype vehicle. Proposals are due May 27.

The Transformer will give troops the ability to avoid traditional and unconventional threats such as ambushes and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and road obstructions. DARPA envisions a variety of use-case scenarios for the TX, including strike and raid, interdiction, intervention, insurgency/counterinsurgency, reconnaissance, medical evacuation and logistics supply."

http://www.livescience.com/technology/DARPA-flying-car-warfare-100422.html

Posted: Apr 28 2010 01:51 pm

I believe a flying car may be my only salvation when it comes to curing my road rage.

That is, if I have one and no one else does.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

"The Pentagon has budgeted $54 million so far to develop the concept."

Why not spend 54 million on alternate energy research and find a way to reduce the number of oil conflicts we have so that we don't need a fucking flying Humvee.

I'm all for flying automobiles, but this is a piss poor use for one. The military has helicopters, harriers, and hovercrafts. Spend that money elsewhere.

Posted: Apr 28 2010 02:25 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

"The Pentagon has budgeted $54 million so far to develop the concept."

Why not spend 54 million on alternate energy research and find a way to reduce the number of oil conflicts we have so that we don't need a fucking flying Humvee.

I'm all for flying automobiles, but this is a piss poor use for one. The military has helicopters, harriers, and hovercrafts. Spend that money elsewhere.

I've thought this for a while......our best method of "self defense" in this day and age is to get ourselves off of oil dependence so we can get the fuck out of the Middle East and never look back.

We get a lot (most) of our oil from South America, I believe. But still......the Middle East is bad news for everyone. The best thing we can do for ourselves is quit caring about their oil.

Posted: Apr 28 2010 02:57 pm

Whoa... flashback to Man with a Golden Gun...

Posted: Apr 28 2010 03:03 pm

We should go back to those stone unicycles they used in B.C.

Posted: Apr 28 2010 04:45 pm

I'm surprised that SIGNIT would let this slip out of the La Le Lu Le Lo's hands.

Posted: Apr 28 2010 07:23 pm

I think that a lot of us will soil our pants the first time we see one in action.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Flying cars exist just not so much commercially
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_%28aircraft%29

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Knyte wrote:

I'm surprised that SIGNIT would let this slip out of the La Le Lu Le Lo's hands.

That wasn't SIGNIT, it was Decoy Octopus.

Posted: Apr 29 2010 11:40 am

Yes, but SIGNIT aka Donald Anderson was the DARPA Chief, and was alive until Ocelot "accidentally" killed him during the torture session.