[Carlhole]

Rip Saw UGV Tank as Fast as a Motorcycle

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gizmodo', 'F')irst introduced in 2005, the Rip Saw is about to hit the market with a $200,000 price tag. The custom-built UGV can hit 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, go 80 mph, and can manoeuvre over any surface or terrain a tank can. And the video is pretty good; watch as it drives through a barn as if it were the cardboard boxen your handset came in.

The privately-funded Rip Saw was first built by the Howe brothers for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Though the Rip Saw didn't win, its video certainly turned some heads, enough to find funding to build more than one. I normally don't get too excited about military shit like this, but any machine that can obliterate a wood shack with ease and turn donuts on snow wins my heart. Check out the 2005 teaser vid to see what i mean.

[evilgenius]

How many slaves would it take to lug that thing around by rope so that the very little supply of fuel can be used only in combat?

Yeah, my dad was in WWII. He said you could take out any tank by knocking out its track. Tanks need soldiers around them in order to stay alive. The more people maurading, the more mouths to feed, the more food needs to be found or there will be dissension.