Soccer ball with guns
In light of my earlier post about the inaptly named Walrus airship, I had to post about this one.
Canadian company 21st Century Airships has completed initial testing of this prototype spherical airship. What you see above is a 19m diameter, two-man dirigible airship. That four engine craft is a test bed for a planned 40m diameter craft that the company intends to use to set the world record for longest duration flight by any type of aircraft. Around the world in two weeks, covering 28,000 miles without stopping once for a piss break, refueling, or cheeseburger.
Aside from the soccer ball livery, they've also made versions up to look like baseballs and globes. Just imagine one of those babies, done up in yellow with a smiley face and armed with very large electric gatling guns, or maybe some nasty missiles. At the very least, you could use something with that kind of endurance for all sorts of things - ecological research, communications, espionage, whatever. And, as an added bonus, it's the only airship in the world that can land on water. You could really have fun chasing whales with this thing...
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Do you think they'll ever
Do you think they'll ever make some that don't look gay?
It doesn't matter what it
It doesn't matter what it looks like, as long as it has guns. Myself, I think it'd be kinda cool to float a pink airship with daisies on it over a battlefield and start lighting up the Islamofascists. Piss 'em off while you kill them.
Humiliation + Death is more effective than Death alone. You don't get 72 virgins if you're killed by a smily face with gatling guns.
Consider the following:
Consider the following:
In early days of focused research on stealth flight characteristics, consideration was given as to what color was most effective in night/low light operations.
Contrary to what we might intuitively guess, that black is the best color for something to be if it's going to hide at night, it actually turns out to be a sort of dun-ish purple.
Fast forward a decade and witness the fielded product. F117s are black because no fighterjock is going to fly a purple plane. It's black because it looks cool.
It is with that attitude that I look askance at happy-fun-candy themed war balloons.
I grant that a shark's mouth or something is not readily applicable, given the shapes and geometries involved with the vehicle, but we can do better than sports, globes, and smilies. Howevermany vulcans or Hellfires you strap to it, it looks gay.
But, why not make lemonade? If no human would crew these vehicles because of their gayness, it would be the perfect opportunity for the autonomous combat monkeys to really shine.
Or, alternatively, provide a
Or, alternatively, provide a mission for gay service members. Getting killed by a giant rainbow-flagged sphere of death won't get you into islamofascist heaven, either.