How I Built A Cheap Cruise Missile
from the surprisingly-simple dept
Back in June we wrote about a guy in New Zealand who was building his own, fully functional cruise missile for under $5,000 to demonstrate just how simple it was - and why authorities need to pay more attention to such DIY risks. Now, Newsweek is running an interview with the guy, where he talks about how easy it has been to build (easier than he even expected) and how authorities have pretty much ignored him completely - despite repeated efforts to contact them. He expects to be done by the end of next month, at which point he wants to (a) drive it around Auckland to prove it's easy to transport and (b) fire it off to prove it works. Then... he's going to build another one.
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