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Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:11 pm
by me_in_japan
no, really...
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/ ... t=faces%22
those crazy Yanks. What will they think of next?
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:54 pm
by Admiral-Badruck
Wish we did not build bolters I wish we built Power Armor
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:40 pm
by Primarch
NIce title M_i_J!!!
Looks like an interesting idea, though I'm sure its not really going to end the conflict in Afghanistan overnight. And its only 35000 dollars!
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:05 pm
by Mike the Pike
Amazing! As they said in the article, "It's a game changer".
Now if only the terrorists sit still long enough for you calculate the extra distance. And if only it didn't cost the same as around 100 AK-47s. And if only you could shoot IEDs and roadside bombs with this thing. And if only the terrorists didn't use Dragunov sniper rifles which out range these new bolters.
I think the "UN" forces in Afghanistan need to take a leaf out of a certain someone's book on strategy and instigate "the systematic destruction of crops and slaughtering of livestock, the burning down of homesteads and farms, and the poisoning of wells and salting of fields—to prevent them from resupplying from a home base many tens of thousands of women and children were forcibly moved into the concentration camps"
A cookie for whoever who can tell us who, when and why for the above.
Disclaimer: I do not actually advocate any of the above. I am just in rant mode and wish to get on my soapbox for a spell, but you know the internets, someone will take it seriously so my legal team has advised me to add these
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:13 pm
by Spevna
The Brits during the Boer War. The single greatest British contribution to the world, the concentration camp. I thankk you one and all.
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:26 pm
by Mike the Pike
A cookie for the Spevna.
Actually it was the Spanish and Americans that first put them into use. The Brits just took the idea and 'improved' it
As an aside, in the next wee while the current Un 'intervention' in Afghanistan will have lasted as long as the Soviet 'invasion'
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:42 pm
by Spevna
I also noticed that it was partly the brain child of Lord Kitchener. Two big claims to fame for that man then!
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:15 am
by Mike the Pike
A real British Hero that Chap. Almost as 'great' as Winston Churchill himself.
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:11 am
by Primarch
History is written by the victors, and occasionally by those who have invented literacy.
Re: Holy crap! It's a bolter! Like, a real one!
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:37 pm
by Grim Ironjaw
Frightening. They sound thrilled about it right now, but they won't be once their enemies get the funds to use it against them.