Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10502460-20180606231912/@comment-10502460-20180611011854

DrBobSmith wrote: HopelessNightOwl wrote:

Also, the idea is that the bird is a recently escaped military experiment, not something that's been living in the wild since before European colonization.

But why would the DOD create that? Seriously. It's going to fly slowly and have a tough time taking off. It's huge so it's an easy target. Forget stealth. What good will it do?

Probably not much, unless it was trained for recon purposes, but it wouldn't be the first time the DoD spent money on something useless and stupid. Or it could be that they don't intend to use the bird itself in combat but are merely trying out their bioengineering abilities in hopes to piggyback off that technology down the road for something that actually is useful.

Although TBF I thought the same thing when in Jurassic World that guy wanted to use raptors for the military. I'm thinking "yeah, those raptors would have no practical infantry application except for maybe some very specialized raid operations".