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dembotoz

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1. aw yes military surplus available to law enforcement agencies

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri Dec 7, 2012, 11:15 AM

Dec 2012

that is how the university town where i was a student managed to come up with an amored personel carrier.....

yesterday a post about how verizon is working on technology to monitor what is going on with a customers house to this.....

i don't even need to wear my tin hat anymore to feel nervous.

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Today's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Will Be Totally Useless In The Pacific Theater [View all] xchrom Dec 2012 OP

aw yes military surplus available to law enforcement agencies dembotoz Dec 2012 #1

Back when I was doing search and rescue we could have used a few drones... Recursion Dec 2012 #2

Um, who exactly are our "more advanced, capable enemies" in the Pacific? Romulox Dec 2012 #3

Those damn Kiwis. They're killing Hollywood Recursion Dec 2012 #5

Kiwis? Hell! They're at least 40 years behind in this race. Romulox Dec 2012 #6

It was a Hobbit joke Recursion Dec 2012 #7

I got that. Mine was a MechaGodzilla joke in response! Romulox Dec 2012 #10

Against "more advanced enemies", our navy would be useless also bhikkhu Dec 2012 #4

I would disagree about the anti-ship weaponry hack89 Dec 2012 #8

The situation in the OP actually argues for more capable drones hack89 Dec 2012 #9

There are many missions that slow large aircraft currently do hack89 Dec 2012 #11

Cell phones were bad enough... jberryhill Dec 2012 #12