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Australia to produce its own guided missiles

Australia to produce its own guided missiles as part of billion-dollar defence manufacturing plan

I'm sure we will give it an Aboriginal name...

 

RAAF looking to establish a space command as it celebrates 100 years

 

Australia has reached 600k vacs so far...the plan was to have 4 million by today...so we are a little behind. Still nothing for me yet : (
We are sending vacs to PNG as they have a huge breakout...

 

In'For All Mankind,' U.S. Marines Carry M16s in Space—This Could Happen in Real Life, Too

 

Microsoft is supplying 120,000 HoloLens-based headsets to the US Army

 

I love the history of the American west, I read about it along with World War II and the Civil War. Perhaps some of these names “ring a bell”?
Lawmen:

 

They Stupid is strong with Apple & the article's author...

I especially love the article's title -
In'For All Mankind,' U.S. Marines Carry M16s in Space—This Could Happen in Real Life, Too
And then the article proceeds to give you all the reasons why it couldn't happen.

The author also apparently never heard of the CAR-15, XM-177, or GAU-5.

 

Lol I'm not sure where you are but being a good ole southern California boy I'd probably be a Popsicle. We think it's cold when it drops to the fifty's and freezing in the fortys hahahaha and yes we really grow bananas not good ones but they grow.

 

I think it would be very possible...it may need a little oxy to facilitate combustion, but there may be enough locked inside the case...it would take off with so little air to go through...

 

I thought I saw a program were they say you could shot a gun in space but anything with enough kick would propell you where you probably don't want to go. I not sure if that was supposed to be practical or hypothetical. Lol trying to recall the Moonraker space battle.

 

Moonraker used "lazers"...light so slow you can see the shot...hmmm...nup.
The equal and opposite reaction would occur...if floating in space it would for sure propel you backwards (a little) but on the moon, the friction from the boots on the surface would be enough to keep you firmly planted IMO.

 

Are they doing it to expand the industry and self reliance. I still want to scratch build a wirraway and boomerang and a sentinel. I read that one of the few complete sentinels was at Melbourne when the museum closed I think it e transferred to a military museum. I think it is too bad the boomerang never managed to score a kill.

 

I can see the movie now, Chinese establish their moon colony and claim the moon the us and Russian forces invade the moon and fight it out with the Chinese. Or should it be us UK ger can aus vs chi and rus

 

Yeah doing it firstly as a deterrent...I think a precurser to nuclear weapons IMO...I think that may be coming in the next decade from Australia...we need a delivery system first. But also recognising that the US may be cut off from Australia during a conflict with China...so we have to become self reliant on pretty much everything. I built a Wirraway from a local company doing short runs of rare aircraft...a LOT of flashing...I had to cut the pieces out from a block of plastic...with plenty of extra work it looked pretty good. I did a Boomerang also...was fun.

 

I think it will be the US V China...UK and Russia have an interest in the moon, but aren't spending anywhere near what China and the US are spending...the Chinese have smartly decided to check out the dark side where there will be far less competition for land and resources at the moment...they then find some weird "gel" substance...WTF is that stuff??

 

The blob in hibernation, yeah I'm waiting for when they get their moon colony and a spy sat goes over and sees them setting up missile launch pads. Yeah the us is spending on the new space force, do you get Netflix service there, but tens of thousands of aerospace workers are still out of work. When NASA cut back some years ago several towns became like ghost Towns in record time. The surrounding towns near Canaveral like emptied when unemployed workers just pulled up everything and pulled out. Where did they go, back to states fatr away to mom&dad's, sister brother, uncle and aunt. The Chinese got all the money and we pretty much gave it to them.

 

That's a good point, should be a snipers dream the vaccum of space no air friction to slow down the shot or wind to drift the round. Lol that was great too jaws gets smitten like a kitten by that tiny girl. All this reminiscing about Moonraker making me want to find some, 007 movies to stream. I've been thinking about watching Golden eye since reading about the telescope collapse. Could cost hundreds of millions to replace.