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The US Army wants Hoverbikes
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The US Army will be getting hoverbikes

If you ever wanted more proof that games like Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Ghost Recon are showcasing gadgets and weapons that aren’t the stuff of science fiction, you only need cast an eye in the direction of the US military.

Last month the US army put out a call for developers to design and manufacture invisibility cloaks for its troops. Now, apparently it wants hoverbikes.

According to a report on The Verge, the US Department of Defence (DoD) has announced a deal with UK developer Malloy Aeronautics to develop hoverbikes for its troops. Malloy has been developing the vehicle over the last couple of years and had even generated enough outside interest in the project to secure funding through Kickstarter.

The hoverbike’s main draw – apart from the fact that it admittedly looks awesome – is that it was designed to enable soldier to complete tasks that would normally required a helicopter. Aside from being safer and cheaper, hoverbikes are also capable of navigating smaller, more confined spaces that helicopters wouldn’t be able to enter.

“[The hoverbike] can do so much inexpensively and effectively as a multi-purpose product that can be flown manned or unmanned,” Malloy’s marketing sales director Grant Stapleton told Reuters.

“It’s absolutely ideal. It’s inexpensive, it can carry a decent load, it can get in and out of very small spaces very quickly and it can be moved across continents very quickly because it can be folded and packed into a C130 or onto a ship and taken; lots of them can be moved around and deployed in the places that you need them very easily and very quickly.”

There’s no word yet on when we’ll be seeing hoverbikes deployed in combat or rescue zones. In the meantime, Malloy is still working its way towards developing hoverbikes for commercial use. Now if someone could just get started on making that flying car…

 

 

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