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What uh... happened during the tests..?
IIRC they found that it wasn't viable for the role it was designed for. There wasn't any catastrophic failures that I remember.
The version I remember is that it was meant to be a quiet way to have a moving elevated guard post. It wasn't quiet.
I can only imagine. ✈️🙉
“How’s your pilot… to shred you say?”
“How is his wife holding up?…to shreds you say?”