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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] a Backyard Project ? : )
Right Carl,
I'm soooo eager to try to cross that border in august with my psub... I
think I will video tape that "special" moment to show at the convention!
Pierre
>From: Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>
>Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] a Backyard Project ? : )
>Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 08:29:07 -0600
>
>Now you guys hold on there! Don't need to be telling this stuff. It's
>been that easy for over 20-30 years. This should have been common
>knowledge long ago. Now with this, it's gonna be far easier for the
>government to regulate psubs a lot more. Launch one of them homemade
>cruise missiles from a psub and you're gone. They can't find you, but
>you can hit them. Good bye psub. They'll make them illegal "just
>because" of the potential.
>
>I best shut up before I tell of other easy ways terrorists could hit the
>USA with, but are too chicken to do it.
>Carl
>
>
>
>Steven Mills wrote:
> >
> > Someone on this list from New Zealand? Have you heard of this?
> >
> > I was doing a search on thrusters and propulsion and came across
> > this little tidbit !
> >
> > --Steve
> >
> >
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=8&u=/nm/20030605/od_nm/newzealand_missile_dc
> >
> > Building a Cruise Missile in His Backyard
> > Thu Jun 5, 9:26 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
> >
> >
> > WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand handyman with a passion for jet
>engines says he is building a cruise missile in his backyard using parts
>and technology freely available over the Internet.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bruce Simpson, a 49-year-old Internet site developer, has a site
>entitled "A DIY Cruise Missile" on which he says he was prompted to build
>the missile because so many people had told him it could not easily be
>done.
> >
> > "I decided to put my money where my mouth is and build a cruise missile
>in my garage, on a budget of just US$5,000," he said on his Web site
>(www.interestingprojects.com).
> >
> > "I like to think of this project as a military version of 'Junkyard
>Wars'," he says referring to a television program about teams building big
>machines from scrapyard materials.
> >
> > He said he would publish step-by-step instructions on his Web site about
>how to make the jet-powered missile, which would be able to fly 100 km (60
>miles) from his home, north of the main city of Auckland, in less than 15
>minutes.
> >
> > The missile could carry a small warhead weighing 10 kg (22 lb), would be
>hard to detect on radar, and would be impossible for the New Zealand Air
>Force to stop, Simpson said.
> >
> > "Obviously the goal is not to provide terrorists or other nefarious
>types with plans for a working cruise missile but to prove the point that
>nations need to be prepared for this type of sophisticated attack from
>within their own borders."
> >
> > The New Zealand Herald newspaper reported Simpson had imported a radio
>control transmitter, global positioning equipment, and a flight control
>system, among other things, without encountering problems from New Zealand
>customs.
> >
> > "We are aware of the initiative," a Defense Force spokesman told
>Reuters, but declined any further comment.
>
>--
>"Indeed, desire is the seed of thought, the prime force that activates
>the mechanism of the mind." -- Kama Sutra
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