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Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Without even looking I am betting your talking about their Taranis stealth drone. The first time I saw pics of that thing I knew people would be linking it to aliens one way or another, lol.
Unfortunately, it is nothing more than a run of the mill un-piloted drone. Cool looking, but not a chance it came from aliens, lol.
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Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Without even looking I am betting your talking about their Taranis stealth drone. The first time I saw pics of that thing I knew people would be linking it to aliens one way or another, lol.
Unfortunately, it is nothing more than a run of the mill un-piloted drone. Cool looking, but not a chance it came from aliens, lol.
Originally posted by susp3kt
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Indeed, that is a wicked looking UAV. Looks like it would be jacked into Skynet!
I haven't put in the research effort yet, but IgnoreTheFacts do you know what kind of propulsion this thing incorporates? Is it a reconnaissance drone, or does it have the capability to destroy wedding parties in a flash?
If it is offensive in nature, I'm sure the munitions are concealed in the fuselage like how many of these birds of prey (cowardice) are configured.
edit on 10-9-2010 by susp3kt because: To add to post
Originally posted by orby1976
reply to post by Maybe...maybe not
Yep thats the picture i was on about. Thankyou for posting.
I wasn't saying that what we are seeing is alien, but more preparation like an earlier post suggested.
Cool looking craft either way. I would love to know what it can do.
Taranis is a British demonstrator programme for unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology. It is part of the UK's Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle (Experimental) programme (SUAV[E]). BAE describes Taranis's role in this context as following: "This £124m four year programme is part of the UK Government’s Strategic Unmanned Air Vehicle Experiment (SUAVE) and will result in a UCAV demonstrator with fully integrated autonomous systems and low observable features." The Taranis demonstrator will have an MTOW of about 8000 kilograms and be of a similar size to the BAE Hawk- making it one of the world's largest UAVs – that will be stealthy, fast and be able to deploy a range of munitions over a number of targets and be able to defend itself against manned and other unmanned enemy aircraft. The first steel was cut in September 2007 and ground testing will start in early 2009. The first flight of the Taranis is planned for the first quarter of 2010. The demonstrator will have two internal weapons bays. With the inclusion of "full autonomy" the intention is thus for this platform to be able to "think for itself" for a large part of the mission.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
looks a heck of a lot like the
unmanned UCAV in the movie
"Stealth". In that movie they
nicknamed the UCAV "Tin Man".
It's a great movie