This is just bizarre. I was reading this article about the Sea Fighter, an aluminum catamaran the size of a football field. It’s a Navy warship designed to fight in shallow water and combat small attack boats like the kind that damaged the USS Cole.
The Sea Fighter was developed by the alarmingly-named Titan Corp (do they sound like the antagonists in a sci-fi movie, or what?). If you’re in the market for such a vessel, and have US $79 million kicking around, you can peruse their brochure (PDF).
Here’s the weird part: the ship has a complement of hundreds of “cruise-like” (not Tom, I assume) missiles, “built entirely with off-the-shelf components and costing about a tenth of the cost of a traditional cruise missile”. And they’re called–I kid you not–Affordable Weapons. Here’s a little video (WMV, and it features the strange phrase “Missile Goes to Loiter”) of one of them in action.
I’m imagining the conversation in enemy territory after a missile strike:
Soldier #1: I heard Marwan got killed.
Soldier #2: Yeah, it’s a bummer.
Soldier #1: How’d it happen?
Soldier #2: Ah, the usual. Killed by an Affordable Weapon.
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Hey, my company shares a building with Titan. I wonder if I can find one of those affordable machines squirreled away in a storage closet somewhere.
By the time soldiers are talking about it, the term won’t be Affordable Weapon. It will be AW (pronounced the same as awe) ’cause everyone is in such a damn hurry.
I worked for Titan Corporation for close to three years. They do their profitability calculations in “number of dollars per kill”.
Yes, they did REALLY call it that.
What a synergistic synthesis of consumerism and the military. I expect we’ll be seeing Weapons of Massive Savings, Fully Automatic Pricebusters, and maybe even an Old Navy 10megaton Blowout Bomb.