The Russian-made Club-K Container Missile System comes with some promises.
Combat Management Module provides:
- every day servicing and scheduled missile control;
- receiving of target detection and commands to open fire
- combat support computation;
- pre-launch preparation;
- launch mission defining and cruise missile launching.
The New York Times reports you get four cruise missile for somewhere between $10 million and $20 million.
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This is both incredibly cool as a concept yet incredibly scary that this is even possible. On the other hand, maybe we could use this against the aliens that Steven Hawking says will invade and conquer the Earth!
OMG, A no brainer container! We are so toast.
This after the great success of the "EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle" ( http://bit.ly/5OhvYi )
Anyone else notice they used the music from Pirates of the Caribbean?
Even scarier was they used Born Free in the beginning to show how peaceful and happy and touristy Unnamed Red Nation was.
Finally, an idea for a thoughtful Mother's Day present...
Cool - combine this with passive radar and any nation can have a real nice, relatively inexpensive defense system. What is really great is satellite and drone surveillance can easily be spoofed. That is, lots of empty containers can be made to look like these and these can be painted to look like real containers. So what is where?
Passive Radar: Hundreds of inexpensive focused RF transmitters broadcasting their geo coordinates (validated by GPS). When the signals are bounced off an incoming aircraft, the passive receivers feed the raw information to Beowulf computing complexes which can then control anti-aircraft missiles. Beowulf complexes use standard off-the-shelf Linux PC to create cheap supercomputers. The passive receivers and computer complexes are located in secure bunkers. Only the inexpensive active emitters are exposed and because there are hundreds of them, it is hard for the enemy to knock the system out.
Maybe building my house using shipping containers may not be such a good idea, people might think I am actually building a missile complex, even though I only have 15 computers. :-))
Dude! The next James Bond video game looks awesome.
Wait... that's real? WIF?
And this is a Russian company? And, uhm... those planes 50 seconds in? Those are FA-18 Hornets. The tail fins are fairly distinctive. That's a U.S. airplane. I thought the whole Russia/US thing was in the past...
(I wonder how many of these Blackwater will be ordering.)
@Ryne501 And does Disney know?
Ugh, these things are rather difficult to kill with Patriot. Great to know they're easily available to anyone that wants them....
Patriot is an old system. And one that, whatever the use it was put to 20 years ago, was designed to take down airplanes, not missiles. Yet it still managed surprisingly well against SCUDs. I admit I haven't kept up with developments, but surely we've come up with better systems since then. If not us, the Israelis.
So replace obviously aggressive military forces bent on invading and taking over our tourist beach income cabanas, with bridges, and big buildings, and industrial business complexes. Then replace containers hidden in their homeland's industrious busybee ports and rail yards, with containers shipped to the other side's industrious ports and rail yards. Then launch those hidden containers at night on abandoned roads when no one is around.
Now you have my nightmares.
If I had any faith at all that someone would notice these things moving around among the millions of containers out there every day, I might be able to get a good night's sleep. As it is I'm relying on the fact that getting accurate satellite targeting information is kinda hard.
On the other hand, they could probably target the missiles with a Jupiter Jack tuned to 93.7 on the FM dial or something ridiculous like that. Fantastic, I just gave myself heartburn.
"All I want for Christmas is a Club-K Container Missile System... "
Spoiler alert thanks Rachel for showing my mom what I got her. Now I have to cancel my order. Wonder if it fits in a pod. I see any containers in my neighborhood I think I will be moving.