From:	Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: 2000L:Drones
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:41:09 UT

>Peter Coxon wrote:
>|
>|Okay here are two Idea's for drones I have had the first is based on the
first
>|drone in the RBB. The second one comes from me and me......based on squids.
>|
>|Drones and Sleds
>|
>|Aztecnology GCR-23M Crab
>|A Tracked Drone
>
>Problem. The sea floor is covered in silt or nast rock formations that
>can't be maneuvered over. Well, there's some areas that are sand, but
>those are rare. Tracks are not the maneuver of choice. It's so easy to
>make a drone that can "swim" by using simple propellers that I don't see
>the need to go with anything else.
Tracks and hydrojets, happy? you can't use hydrojets or props, on land.
>|Cyberspace Designs Squid
>
>So why did they make something that's so stealthy? What are the battle
>applications of this baby. I can allready see the potential for loading a
>warhead on it and sending it after targets.
Battle apps? Have you read FOF? can you imagine remotley controling this from
a couple of K's away in safe territory, seeing a target and saying well I
don't like the look of that one, click whoosh BOOM.
But however I have taken your point into account, I am design the CyberSpace
Calamari series, all based of the Myomer structures, with torpedoes, or
exploding fish, drones and one person vehicles.
>-David

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