| Joe Wicked |
08-17-2008 03:52 AM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by bomelia
(Post 870860)
Joe, you know something we don't? ;) Spill the beans!
Pack mule my other arse. Thats what the military needs, a noisy, multi-million dollar pack mule. Unless it can be made quite, recon is out too. I would LOVE to see it react to the kick of a big gun.
Mike
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Nothing directly, just inferring from what I learned in my former life. One thing I learned was when you see everything, you can start to see the pattern the military uses for development and deployment. I used to have a Top Secret SCI clearance and I worked with a bunch of different stuff (all of it after deployment, in service, but you can see the pattern when you look at it).
What I remember from the first time I saw this is that the primary objective for the next phase is to make it quiet. Obviously they need to make it quiet to make it useful for the troops in any actual mission. If nothing else it is too distracting. What I see is them making it quiet and then deploying it on a trial basis. While they are proving that out, the weapons based platform will be in heavy testing. At about the time the trial for a pack mule is concluding the weapons ready option will be ready for testing and deployment. What the public sees is that once it is deployed, it has weapons. My guess is 10 years from now, these things will be common in all ground divisions in a myriad of different configurations.
Just my opinion, I haven't been around any classified information for over 10 years now. I am basing it on my experiences. |
