Yet Another Weapons Post

Seriously, more and more weapons? What has gotten into us this year? Maybe I just haven’t looked hard enough the previous years for posts about weapons. Over the course of a single day, I stumbled upon records of two weapons mentioned. Most of my content is not exactly original, although some of it is. I get a lot from what I pick up through RSS feeds and websites I visit regularly. I only post on things I’m really interested in or that I find extremely peculiar or that warrants some discussion. For example, I think that these two items warrant some discussion, as with the AR-15 modded with a chainsaw and the RPG-30. The two items I have in mind to discuss today is the Multiple Kill vehicle (multi-kill vehicle) and the ninja blowgun and pocket knife combo, both of which I find extremely interesting. I don’t claim to be a weapons enthusiast or fanatic, but I do have a couple of knives and such and I do take an interest in new innovations such as these. I have roughly 7-8 knives, most of them pocketknives to carry around. I also have a couple of airsoft guns and one rifle. I do like to practice my aim, just as most guys would love to. So you could imagine my surprise when I came across the multi-kill vehicle currently being developed by the Missle Defense Agency. A test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle was conducted on December 2nd at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The objectives of the test were to have the MKV-L hover under it’s own power and to be able to track it’s target and maintain in flight manueverability. Telemetry was sent to the ground and it proved to be a success. So why all this investment in a Multiple Kill Vehicle? What is it’s purpose? Well, it is supposed to supply protection and defense against intercontinental-range ballistic missles. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System, a vehicle would be able to scramble theses MKV-L’s. These vehicles would then track the missiles and hopefully take them down. It’s a great start to an excellent program. After taking a look at the video, I think it might even be better in close quarter combat situations. If the Army and Marines could deploy these things with a platoon, wouldn’t that be beneficial? After reading articles in Popular Science magazine, it looks like warfare is getting more and more technologically advanced. If we could program these things to follow our guys into combat and recognize friendly and enemy forces, wouldn’t it be massively helpful? I mean think about a room full of insurgents. If we sent in a multikill vehicle ahead of the humans, wouldn’t that eliminate the threat and cut out on the risk factor? Just a thought. Here is the video of the MKV-L in action.

The next weapon is the ninja blowgun and pocket knife combo. It’s both of them rolled into one. How cool is that? The price tag is only $14.94 sale price at swordsknivesanddaggers dot com. The product description reads: “Ninja blowgun and Pocket knife combo. 5″ closed and has a 3 1/2″ 440 stainless steel blade. Includes 2 pieces of black tubing to make your pocket knife blowgun. Also includes 3 darts and a nylon pouch.” It sounds good, but I wonder how powerful and how sturdy the blade of the pocket knife really is. Well it’s almost time for the holidays. In this case I think I’ll check it out after the holiday bum rush. I’ll write a review about it if I do end up getting it.

That is all for this edition of weapons. If anything else that sounds cool shows up, you can find out more about it right here on my blog. Just as a little intro to my next blog posts, I’ll be talking about the year’s biggest fads and hits on the internet since it is almost the end of 2008. It’s time to usher in 2009 with THE BEST OF 2008 post. It’ll be the first annual BEST of [insert year here} post. I also have a couple of posts dealing with Hulu’s cool features that they are pushing out a little bit at a time. a look at holiday shopping and green gifts, how YouTube is embracing HD, and of course my green revolution post. Enjoy! It is all coming shortly.