Monday 24 August 2009

A Barrell of Laughs

Ok so recently I have been watching a lot of supposed comedy programmes including the TNT Show and You Have Been Watching on Channel 4.

Now, I am sure that comedy is where you see something that makes you laugh and makes you enjoy a certain moment due to a hilarity factor.

I was therefore DISGUSTING and shocked at the TNT Show. What the hell was I watching? I do not know. Something which is on par with watching a box, filled with diarrhoea. I think watching a baby being stabbed to death has far more comedial value than the fucking TNT show.

I will never be watching that ever again and if one day I do by accident, I will realise my error and probably kill myself.

Yes, it was seriously that bad.

To end this, I must apologise for the shorter-than-usual posts. This is due to me being away so I have scheduled this post just to fill the gap of my absense.

See you soon!

Friday 14 August 2009

Seek and Destroy...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Are they really what is needed for defense today?

Looking from an employment point of view, it is bringing some more jobs to the global career plate. Jobs which are very nicely welcomed in this world which seems to now suffer from a sudden lack of open opportunities. But is it all really green trees and nicely-trimmed gardens? (I just made that saying up)

I do not know why, but I cannot help to think that these 'drones' could be the ending to air forces' around the world requiring human pilots to sit and fly the aircraft themselves. This leads me to ask myself a few questions. Things like:

What would happen to the Red Arrows? Well, they wouldn't ever be the same ever again would they? I cannot imagine the Royal Air Force without a human Red Arrows team - could you imagine it? Real people at real controls for aircraft - demonstrating not only the superiority of the RAF, but also how skilled they are, pushing the limits of their bodies constantly throughout an extensive sequence of maneuvres.

But anyway, back onto the subject at hand. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles seem to be a good idea at the moment, but that is because there is a small amount of them buzzing around quietly above the Afghan skies.

Should we trust them to fire upon an enemy installation? A part of me doesn't think they should be used in conjuction with firing hellfire missiles because if something was to go wrong, could you imagine the problems it would cause?

Now, don't get me wrong, they are saving the lives of the guys on the ground when they are pinned down and needing an air strike but I know for a fact that fastjets with pilots firing from within the cockpit are a lot more accurate than the drones.

Add that to the argument that piloted aircraft can fire missiles in real time, but the UAV pilots have to take into account a very small second-long lag when firing missiles and if you were to forget about that lag, then you would fire and miss the target.

They aren't even cheap anyway. Costing more than a piloted fastjet aircraft, the UAV is, as far as I can see a drain for the governments defence budget and is a dead end as far as defence technology goes.

Yet again, that could sound rather crushing of me but let me expand on the previous paragraph. Technology has allowed the UAV to be developed and yes, for technology, game on. It's great for technology - as it shows we are continuing to develop greater machines and soon they will be autonomous no doubt.

For defence, I don't like UAVs - stick to Combat Flight Simulator if you want to fly remotely and kill people from a computer screen.

Maybe Sony or Toshiba should create UAV Simulators so you can play along at home. Or maybe not.

I don't trust these things and I don't think they should be trusted by Defence Chiefs. To conclude though, I leave you with this thought. The day that human pilots are no longer needed, is the day aviation can destroy the world.

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Note: Sorry about the long delay inbetween the last post and this post, I have been incredibly busy lately so haven't had a chance to publish anything!
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