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US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:02 am
by VTRDark

Re: US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 5:27 pm
by alanfjones1411
Yes please,i want one.

Re: US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2016 10:14 pm
by sirch345
Very interesting, cheers for posting Carl :thumbup:

Chris.

Re: US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 3:51 am
by VTRDark
If things are development and used by the military it wont be long before they go commercialised. I wonder if in the future we will need diffrent licenses for diffrent altitudes. It will help with traffic congestion.

Re: US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:19 am
by Wicky
US military / DARPA throws ludicrous amounts of money at concept projects

This from the 50s
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what they ended up with...

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but DARPA is still at it with ideas of flying Humvees.

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And reality...

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Meanwhile with a flight ceiling of 10,000 ft and a top speed of 90mph...

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Re: US Army is developing a hoverbike for battlefield

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:51 am
by VTRDark
Good point. I t might not even take off.