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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

Ok...been thinking about this for a bit now. This super gun can fire explosive rounds that detonate behind the enemy's cover. Ummm, isn't another name for this mortar or grenade launcher...or, if you're close enough, just a grenade?

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WA Bishop's avatar

Yeah, but this is AWESOME!!!1!!

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Rarian Rakista's avatar

In Lake County Oregon about 28k a year and a house is about 30-50k for a 2 bedroom.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

Well...why didn't they say so? Tax dollars well spent!

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Rarian Rakista's avatar

You can if you drop them from a Tornado, we need Kansas Missiles with Dorothy AI.

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Rarian Rakista's avatar

There is a difference between reverse engineering human scale electromechanical systems and nano scale electronic ones. Totally non-trivial and out of Russia's depth really, Taiwan on the other hand can probably do it an hour.

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Rarian Rakista's avatar

Sriracha sauce here.

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Rarian Rakista's avatar

Wouldn't it be far cheaper and effective to bully our enemy like gay kids in high schools and hope they kill themselves? Oh wait, thats right there are more people committing suicide in Afghanistan and Iraq than are being killed by terrorists, TSA or Taliban.

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WA Bishop's avatar

Uh, that's not mayo....

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WA Bishop's avatar

Pay for Privates (er...) ranges from $14,136 to $20,304. So you can imagine the Army will be motivated to care for the weapon much more than the one who carries it.

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

<i>"Once the trigger is pulled and the round leaves the barrel, a computer chip inside the projectile communicates exactly how far it has traveled, allowing for precise detonation behind or ahead of any target."</i>

While en route, the bullet connects to wonkette where it posts under the name "neilist".

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

Jesus used the CHEEK-25 weapon system from Jerico Tech. Sophisticated for its time, the trigger activated a leather strap that turned the user's <i>other</i> cheek toward the enemy. Costing only 35,000 pieces of silver, it was a "game changer".

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chascates's avatar

After Cyber Monday, Buzzkill Tuesday.

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

Here's the gun porn money shot

"It decimates anything within its lethal radius."

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Dashboard Buddha's avatar

That was brilliant. Well done.

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WA Bishop's avatar

How concerned is the Army about one of its (apparently) underpaid grunts "losing" their weapon for, say, six months' pay?

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