DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transport

[Ben]

Looks handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxpJNI5u4Q&feature=player_embedded

[MillCreek]

Oooohh.

[seeker_two]

I'll take one....need a good bass boat....this one tows itself.... 

[AmbulanceDriver]

That is pretty friggin' awesome.....

[just Warren]

And this wasn't made in Russia?

And yes I want one.

[roo_ster]

Somefellow had a styro beer cooler full of beer, dinking on the rear deck of a m113, and got to thinking...

Oh, and darpa would be a sweet job for the likes of me.

[vaskidmark]

I still want to see the sheer strength of the pins holding those compartments to the track belt tested with some high-speed, jinking moves - you know, the moves some Lance Corporal would be making as he roars through the surf, up the beach, and into the tree-line.  Nothing like trying to avoid incoming fire to show just where the weakest link* is.

stay safe.


* It was not intended as a pun, but I guess it turned into one anyhow.

[birdman]

I still want to see the sheer strength of the pins holding those compartments to the track belt tested with some high-speed, jinking moves - you know, the moves some Lance Corporal would be making as he roars through the surf, up the beach, and into the tree-line.  Nothing like trying to avoid incoming fire to show just where the weakest link* is.

stay safe.


* It was not intended as a pun, but I guess it turned into one anyhow.

I would bet they are mounted on the track link pins, so the weakest link is likely the eye not the pin.

Side benefit, those enclosed boxes provide really nice standoff and protection from HEAT rounds/missiles.

[roo_ster]

I still want to see the sheer strength of the pins holding those compartments to the track belt tested with some high-speed, jinking moves - you know, the moves some Lance Corporal would be making as he roars through the surf, up the beach, and into the tree-line.  Nothing like trying to avoid incoming fire to show just where the weakest link* is.

stay safe.


* It was not intended as a pun, but I guess it turned into one anyhow.

I sometimes long to have an E-2 on hand to handle the stuff some of my colleagues craft.  "Private Jones, try out this techno doo-dad that Mr. P. Haitch Dee, Chief Engineer for the DU-DADD program just brought by...."

"...and please be gentle.  Last time you made him cry and he wouldn't come out of his office for love or money."

[Jamisjockey]

I sometimes long to have an E-2 on hand to handle the stuff some of my colleagues craft.  "Private Jones, try out this techno doo-dad that Mr. P. Haitch Dee, Chief Engineer for the DU-DADD program just brought by...."

"...and please be gentle.  Last time you made him cry and he wouldn't come out of his office for love or money."

True.  If it can be broke, an enlisted Marine is usually good at finding a way to do so.

I watched a Lcpl flip a Hummer when our Captain dared him to powerslide it.  (He was the Capt.'s driver)

[roo_ster]

True.  If it can be broke, an enlisted Marine is usually good at finding a way to do so.

I watched a Lcpl flip a Hummer when our Captain dared him to powerslide it.  (He was the Capt.'s driver)

Shoulda known better.  We had mother-loving RSOVs and some motorbikes, too.  SOP on those RSOVs was pucker-inducing.  Lotsa our boys had the same driver training as the Secret Service and LOVED to show it off.  Encouraging even more wild behavior would be suicidal.  Or great fun.


Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Special_Operations_Vehicle

[AJ Dual]

Looks handy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxpJNI5u4Q&feature=player_embedded

Hmm... "disaster relief".

Take the concept even further. Make the floats and as much of the structure out of human-digestable polymerized starch as possible, And fuel it off of pure Ethanol. I bet FEMA would be lots more popular if they rolled up on a disaster area in amphibious tanks made out of chips and booze. 

Although in typical fed.gov efficiency, I'm sure all the ranch flavored ones will wind up on one side of town, and the sour cream & onion the other, giving no variety. 

[vaskidmark]

Hmm... "disaster relief".

Take the concept even further. Make the floats and as much of the structure out of human-digestable polymerized starch as possible, And fuel it off of pure Ethanol. I bet FEMA would be lots more popular if they rolled up on a disaster area in amphibious tanks made out of chips and booze. 

Although in typical fed.gov efficiency, I'm sure all the ranch flavored ones will wind up on one side of town, and the sour cream & onion the other, giving no variety. 

I believe AJ may have just found a reason not to disband ATF, if he ensures that the cargo containers are packed with Cuban cigars.  It will, however, cause a whole lot of T-shirts http://www.amazon.com/Alcohol-Firearms-Bringing-Hilarious-T-shirts/dp/B0017ICRE6 to be retired.

stay safe.