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Well maybe the men at the Pentagon will see it that way. Personally I wouldn't like to be confined in it crawling up the side of a mountain in hostile territory, but that's just my sense of survival..
 
I work with them on a daily basis. They are called horses................. :banana: :devilgrin:
 
poolboy said:
Well maybe the men at the Pentagon will see it that way. Personally I wouldn't like to be confined in it crawling up the side of a mountain in hostile territory, but that's just my sense of survival..
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I understand what you are saying, but that has been a problem with light military vehicles since the chariot, you are not going to get around it if you want light, rapid mobility. They went through it with horse drawn vehicles, and in every conflict since motorized vehicles were developed. Heavy armor is severly limited in mobility and manouverability.
What I am trying to say is, if the concept can be made reliable, it would be more capable, versitile, could go more places, and could replace most light transport being used now.
 
scoutll said:
the bad guys would have to do more than sit on a hill and watch the road approaches from now on, cause they would never know where you were coming from.
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Good point.
 
Let see. They are on the top of the mountain and you are trying to make your way up clanking around on boulders. I don't think it would take them too long to zero in on you.
Then again if they're not up there, why would you be on your way up ?. It's an old strategy. Take the high ground. Hard to sneak up, but those drones and choppers do manage get a lttle bit higher.
Paint em pink and send em to Sedona.
 
having been there and watched how they work, they don't need the high ground. They have people watching what we do, with cell phones. With the limited roads we had to use in the kush, they knew when you passed you would have to return the same way and just wait for you.
 
scoutll said:
I understand what you are saying, but that has been a problem with light military vehicles since the chariot,
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Longer even

Exodus 14:23-28

"The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt."

26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen." 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward [c] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived."
 
JP, I'm with ya, but I don't think arming our guys with sticks is a good idea. :crazyeyes:
 
kellysguy said:
JP, I'm with ya, but I don't think arming our guys with sticks is a good idea. :crazyeyes:
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Are you kidding! Didn't you see Raiders of the Lost Ark?
 
All I remeber is the guy with the sword got shot by the guy with the pistol...
 
JPSmit said:
scoutll said:
I understand what you are saying, but that has been a problem with light military vehicles since the chariot,
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Longer even

Exodus 14:23-28

"The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh's horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. 24 During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. 25 He made the wheels of their chariots come off so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt."

26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen." 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward [c] it, and the LORD swept them into the sea. 28 The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived."
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A scene that was in one of my favorite movies staring Chuck Heston! Boy, did Cecil cast that right! (I've heard there is a scene in that movie where a jet contrails can be seen, but I've never noticed it). Anyway. back to the topic - I could see where that concept could be very useful but it would have to be much uprated and armored. If nothing else it would make a fun recreational vehicle!
 
I have a ~VERY~ vivid memory of that movie has a child of 5. I was in the hospital durring Easter. I stopped a mini bike with my face on a shell parking lot. The face-brake will stop you dead everytime, but you only will use it once...
 
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