(Photo: MCpl Kevin Paul / Canadian Forces Combat Camera)
Menacingly, during the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, Canada is working on a super quiet snowmobile design:
The Canadian military has been secretly test-driving a $620,000 stealth snowmobile in its quest to quietly whisk troops on clandestine operations in the Arctic.
The Canadian Press has learned that soldiers have taken the new hybrid-electric snowmobile prototype on trial runs to evaluate features such as speed, noise level, battery endurance and acceleration.
The Department of National Defence even has a nickname for its cutting-edge, covert tool: “Loki,” after the “mythological Norse shape-shifting god.”
Link -via Jeremy Barker
I think people (or polar bears) will still be able to find the "stealth snowmobile" by it's tracks.
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Eskimos, beware.
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They should name a Stealth Snowmobile "Selpnir" after Odin's many-legged horse. I mean, "Loki"? Really? The troublemaking trickster god?
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