Avatar 2: Analyzing the RDA Whaling Fleet

Spacedock delves into RDA's fleet of whaling watercraft from #Avatar The Way of Water

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[sebchambers]

Avatars vehicles continue to be the best part of this franchise hands down, absolutely love all the RDA tech that is shown in the film. Would love to see a comprehensive breakdown of bridgehead city at some point too.

[SenMysrana]

The fantastic thing about the Sea Dragon is that it's basically a mechanical Tulkun. A dark, grim, steel reflection of the beasts it slays. Sleek, broad profile; a horned "head"; a front that opens in sections like a Tulkun mouth; and a hull with striations like the pleats on a cetacean's throat. It's even taken out by a critical blow striking a weak point inside, and the metal screams and groans as the stricken ship sinks.

[thepsion]

All those upgrades over the Scorpion and they still didn't make the canopy arrow-proof

[archmageofmetal]

When I saw Avatar 2 in theaters everyone was all like "omg no! Those poor space whales!!" And I'm the only nerd thinking "That's an Ekranoplan with contrarotating props."

[yodaslovetoy]

"We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon,
For they ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune" - Futurama

[scarecrowproductions]

7:36
General Dynamics, everyone! The company that builds nuclear submarines, AEGIS-type warships, and now...Military-grade Hydrofoil-type Fast Whaling Motherships!!

[AchanCham_]

Each time the human technology is brought up from these movies I am really impressed with both the creativity and the practicality of it.

[stevenclark]

I like how the crab suit is kinda simultaneously a PRAWN suit and a Seamoth.

[eskreskao]

I'm glad to see Richard Dean Anderson has been recognized by the human space military.

[smeargtr]

I loved the little touches of realism like ladders on the legs of the crabs etc, however I feel that the humans would have learnt from their previous mistakes and weaknesses and make arrow-proof canopies.

[yetanother]

Side note on the Picador: it's a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), which is to say a speedboat with an inflated collar around the periphery of the hull. This means that unlike a purely inflatable boat, it can travel at high speeds without collapsing, and benefits from a planing hull shape to lift it out of the water as it travels, while the air-filled collar ensures it won't sink even if the hull is pierced or swamped by waves and fills with water.

[JacobBongers]

The scenes with these beautiful sci-fi boats were some of my favorite scenes in the movie tbh

[guntere]

I really love the Crabsuits, they're so cool looking and practical

[michaeljf]

My Avatar rating: 9/10
My Avatar rating without cool RDA vehicles: 5/10

[captain_commenter]

I really hope that the budget is high enough for the finale of Avatar so that we can see a large scene of a land, air and SEA battle at bridgehead. Imagine seeing all of RDAs shiny toys going toe to toe with the life of Pandora…




And for gods sake RDA. Arrow-proof your damn cockpits already!

[Anamnesis]

Glad you referenced the quote from Scoresby about what he was actually there to do. The Cet Ops crews were commandeered despite not being equipped for a military operation, they were just whalers with a few small gunboats and light aircraft. It's not like that one Sea Dragon represented everything the RDA has in store at Bridgehead City. The third movie is going to be NUTS.

[coal_edxts]

Here's a fun fact: Amrita in Sanskrit means 'The immortality elixir'. According to Hindu Mythology, the Devas (The 'good guys') and the Asuras (The 'bad guys') finally joins hands to extract amrita out of the ocean for the welfare of both groups by churning it with a huge mountain.

[bloodbornduck]

I feel that there is a very untapped market for maritime craft designs in sci-fi

[kanojias]

Talking about the amazing characteristics of the seawasp while showing videos of it getting wrecked

[Uzarran]

No lie, I would have given anything to have some of these in Subnautica.
Oh, those Reapers would pay.