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After the screwed up fail-safe implementations of current drones like the MQ-9, it ought to be tested on the families of the developers.

If only the latest technology was used on their advertising blurb (rather than 80's music and the terrible 'glowing sword' graphics...) = \

All's fun in UAV combat until a 16 yr old kid of a Russian Mafioso hacks the satellite...

When do they start patrolling US borders?

now we just need to find Ender Wiggin to control the fleet and save us from the buggers.

>> ^Payback:
All's fun in UAV combat until a 16 yr old kid of a Russian Mafioso hacks the satellite...


No it was an Muslim kid, but he was just a fall guy for some rich white bastard. (NCIS Los Angeles)

Also check out the Boeing X-45 which should be able to land on aircraft carriers, and of which prototypes already exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-45

OK. Super awesome cool looking aircraft. If I make a sci-fi movie I definitely want to cast this vehicle as a central character.

But the concept seems all wrong. I thought the point of UAVs was small, lightweight and inexpensive. This seems like a defense contractor trying to sell a Cadillac to someone who needs a delivery scooter. We already have a UAV that delivers smart missiles. If you need to deliver 2000lb bombs then scale it up. If you need an air-superiority drone then take a gun, stick a jet engine on it and design as much wing and fuselage around it as you need for it to have the flight characteristics you want.

Creating an all-in-one vehicle that can be converted to manned control will result in an aircraft that performs none of those intended roles as well as a purpose built vehicle for each of those roles...and at ten times the cost to build and operate.

This smells like the military industrial complex trying desperately to create a new bottomless pit of revenue.

^ Well, Lockheed is arguing that regardless of the per-airframe-cost, it will still be worth it because of the avoided logistics and overheads of instead dealing with 3 or 4 different UAV models. Not sure if that's true. This thing looks very expensive.

I think, in general, UAVs should be cheap and flexible, and this does not look cheap at all. I would think that cutting edge performance and stealth is not actually that relevant for UAVs -- if one of them gets shot down then there's no loss of life, minimum loss of money, and the enemy has revealed himself.

This isn't top secret is it?

As a general rule I'm quite against the military industrial complex that has become our 4th wing of government (the Pentagon) that has ensured we've been at war since the 50's somewhere in the world and will be for an unforeseeable future. Not to mention the large segment of the population that treats war and it's atrocities as a hobby.

But that is one fucking wicked looking UAV.


(and yea, nice 80's music, cg and animation too.)

Reminds me of Wing Commander 3.

>> ^Truckchase:
Reminds me of Wing Commander 3.


everyone who mentions Wing commander 3 gets an upvote..

And yet the most effective weapon system used against America in the last 60 years was four Boeing commercial aircraft.

>> ^TheFreak:
OK. Super awesome cool looking aircraft. If I make a sci-fi movie I definitely want to cast this vehicle as a central character.


You mean like "Stealth"?

Looks like they finally found the Achilles' heel on those $339 million cold war clunkers known as the F-22s.

THE PILOTS

Shrinking budgets???

Yours now for 1 billion! But wait that's not all! Act now, and we'll throw in an extra bomb module! That's 1 Sabre Warrior plus 2 bomb modules for only 1 billion. Callers are standing by!

Have Americans finally figured out that it's "recce" (pronounced 'Wreck-E') not "recon"? I've never heard that term used coming from an American source before.

The video is a bit blah though, it's just a concept design. Anyone who's been to an auto show knows that 10 years later the cars coming off the line have very little to do with the concept cars.

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