Rip Saw UGV Tank Fast as a Motorcycle, Yours For Only $200,000
First introduced in 2005, the Rip Saw is about to hit the market with a $200,000 price tag. The custom-built UGV can hit 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, go 80 mph, and can manoeuvre over any surface or terrain a tank can. And the video is pretty good; watch as it drives through a barn as if it were the cardboard boxen your handset came in.
The privately-funded Rip Saw was first built by the Howe brothers for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Though the Rip Saw didn’t win, its video certainly turned some heads, enough to find funding to build more than one. I normally don’t get too excited about military shit like this, but any machine that can obliterate a wood shack with ease and turn donuts on snow wins my heart. Check out the 2005 teaser vid to see what i mean. [Howe and Howe via Red Ferret via Geekologie]
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That is so bloody awesome!!
Im asking one for christmas…
That’s pretty cool. I think I’ll place an order for 10 of them! =)
I just want to point out what the competition was for the tank…two trucks. Probably modified trucks…but trucks all the same. Trucks vs. Tank.
Hmmm…no surprise who one :P
Btw, I think that the Rip-Saw is awesome, and I’m very impressed.
Wish they’d put it up against something more its caliber, so they could really show it off.
i believe the trucks were to demonstrate its superior suspention over wheeled vehicles.
haha yeah dillon is right. just a two-axle/tread comparison. if you look closely at the windshields, you will see how much they picked them up for!
Bloody stupid you mean……..
This is the Cobra HiSS tank from G.I. Joe:
http://smalljoes.com/images_gijoe/hiss_l.jpg
Only thing I’d worry about in that would be tipping.
But that would easily be rectified if it was widened.
Militarism gone Wild!
Does it come with airbags?
It’s fast because it’s light. With armor, this won’t be quite as impressive.
one mine of rpg = gg rip saw
So let me get this straight….
The asking price for that red hued Chevy was only $500?
Sweet
Love it! Please show more footage,this unit is awesome!
Is it street legal?
of all the wildest things i have ever seen this is the best of the best!!!!
I GOT TO HAVE ONE!!!!!!
I just have to build a remote control version of this! It’s bloody awsome
I want to see one you can sit in and drive