He's not angry, he's constipated. He's been sitting there all day waiting for the ground crew to get the engine started.

an angry man with a mustache? Okay, if that's what you want

Yeah, here's what I'd get

I would give everybody on Merlin's Bar a drone, so we can dog fight! :D

>>28607 You'd just buy more parts for a super-computer.

think of me what I can do with 10 billion dollars!
<evil laughter>

I look at all that wasted money and think of all the homes 10 billion could build for the homeless.

But can it do loop the loops? That's the big question!

>>28597 I forgot to add the program cost: US$10 billion, silly me.

>>28584 Impressive. I like the range; 8700 miles is very impressive. Just think, you get all of this for under a billion.

>>28586 And a U2 was intercepted by a RAF Lightning during a NATO exercise. The Lightning allegedly was descending at the time.

>>28581 So no. Remember the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady? It has a service ceiling of 70,000+ ft (21,300+ m) and was shot down over Russia in 1960.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-2_Guideline
I spy..and that's it ;)

Specs
Number built: 42
Unit cost : US$222.7M (RQ-4B)

General characteristics
Crew: 3 remote: LRE pilot; MCE pilot and sensor operator
Length: 47.6 ft (14.5 m)
Wingspan: 130.9 ft (39.9 m)
Height: 15.3 ft (4.7 m)
Empty weight: 14,950 lb (6,781 kg)
Gross weight: 32,250 lb (14,628 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce F137-RR-100 turbofan engine, 7,600 lbf (34 kN) thrust

Performance
Cruise speed: 357 mph (310 kn; 575 km/h)
Range: 8,700 mi (7,560 nmi; 14,001 km)
Endurance: 28 hours
Service ceiling: 60,000 ft (18,288 m)

Each RQ-4 air vehicle can carry a payload of 2,000 pounds (910 kilograms).

Looks to me this thing can fly fairly high and maybe out of a missile's range.
>>28578 So do you spy or bomb?

>>28579 especially compared to this one
and by I >>28578 I mean it ;)

Holy shit! Didn't realise they were that big :O

I can do observation too, yes. Bombing is the other.

This a spy-type plane?