Is Batman's Tumbler Actually Real?

Yes. Kind of. No, you still can’t have one. You’ll just have to commute to work in the concrete and steel reinforced killdozer you built in your garage, like the Gamma Squad staff.

“The Raider”, pictured at right, comes courtesy of BAE Systems, which as we all know is the second largest defense contractor in the world. Unlike most people who get their inspirations from movies and then clumsily try to pretend that their big idea didn’t come from paying ten bucks at the multiplex, BAE was pretty up front about it, insisting that “if we saw something in a film that we thought might be a good idea, why not take a look at it?”

We can’t wait for the nuclear accelerator in a backpack with proton cannon that they’re working on. Or maybe they could stop pussyfooting around the issue and just build a phaser already. These killdozers can’t just vaporize all this SUV wreckage in front of the office.

[ via the stiff upper lips at CrunchGear ]