DARPA Putting Special Forces on Stealth Dirt Bikes

[Exocet]

Pff, wake me up when special forces skateboard to the battlefield.

So bad.

 

[Callate]

If they offer a kit to the civilian market to quickly and covertly retrofit Harley Davidsons with the technology, I'd buy a few. Best prank ever...

In other news, DARPA is working on turning our forces into the Brotherhood of NOD.

 

[FalloutJack]

In related news, DARPA is now radical.

Heh, if Dr. McNinja had this instead of the one he had, he'd get Rad without getting bad in the process.

 

[MCerberus]

Wait, isn't this basically all of what DARPA does? Crazy mil-tech?

DARPA is the Pentagon "Mad Science" division, responsible for things like developing drones and creating remote-controlled cockroaches (seriously).

 

[Avaholic03]

"Quieted, all-wheel-drive capability at extended range in a lightweight, rugged, single-track vehicle could support the successful operations of U.S. expeditionary and special forces in extreme terrain conditions and contested environments,"

I'm confused. How exactly do you make a motorocycle "all-wheel-drive" capable? Seems like driving the front wheel would make it difficult to also turn. So are they basically re-designing the batman motorcycle thing? If so, that seems wildly impractical.

 

[cryogeist]

Poland's Stealth Tank is better

 

[Jodokh]

"Quieted, all-wheel-drive capability at extended range in a lightweight, rugged, single-track vehicle could support the successful operations of U.S. expeditionary and special forces in extreme terrain conditions and contested environments,"

I'm confused. How exactly do you make a motorocycle "all-wheel-drive" capable? Seems like driving the front wheel would make it difficult to also turn. So are they basically re-designing the batman motorcycle thing? If so, that seems wildly impractical.

Well I'm going to be that guy, here's your all wheel drive dirt bike...

http://www.christini.com/

 

[EvolutionKills]

I'm just going to say, that one of the reasons you have a loud motorcycle is so that people can hear you. Not to be an obnoxious douchebag or anything, but because bikes are so much harder to see and notice because of their relative smaller size on the road. Head on, a lot of bikes have a profile no bigger (and sometimes smaller) than a standing pedestrian. I've had people pull out of intersection right in front of me (which is one of the biggest dangers and causes of death and injury on bikes), and I've had people try to merge into my lane right into me. Being as loud as you can is one thing you can do to help others realize that you are there. It's why I took the baffles out of the exhaust on my bike. It's still quite enough to put through the neighborhood without disturbing anyone, but at speed it can make some noise when I need it to.

 

[EvolutionKills]

*stupid double post*

 

[Cerebrawl]

The Swedish army still uses bikes for despatch riders and recon, training includes going well and truly off-road in forests.

I know some army-trained individuals have escaped traffic tickets by taking their bikes into the trees where the police can't follow.

 

[Strazdas]

A drone might see 18 or so people moving west near a wood line, but a Scout squad can tell you any insignias, give a definite count and ID of weapons they might have and even ethnicity of targets.

Even better, they can get close enough to them to relay the targets actual plans directly back to the chain of command and be actionable ready within moments of confirmation by higher ups.

i think your underestimating just how good cameras and video recognition technology has got. Google ran automated face blurring in its whole google maps system and i am yet to see where it missed one. same for car numbers, because of overzealous privacy laws here. insignias can be automatically identified and then relied to human operator for further processing. heck, humans look at the footage anyway in such case.

Poland's Stealth Tank is better

you mean horses?
sorry, bad joke.