Thursday, February 6, 2014

Britain's Deadly Superdrone Taranis Makes It's First Test Flight



Britain's Deadly Superdrone Makes First Test Flight: Taranis Unmanned Military Vehicle 'Surpassed All Expectations' In The Air -- Daily Mail

* The drone made ‘a perfect take-off, rotation, “climb out” and landing on its first flight,' according to BAE systems, which made the pilotless aircraft
* Taranis - named after the Celtic god of thunder - is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound and to evade enemy radar

Britain’s next generation military drone has ‘surpassed all expectations’ in its first test flight.

Taranis, which is named after the Celtic god of thunder, is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound and evade enemy radar with its single-wing stealth design.

It took to the air for the first time in August, but footage of the flight has only just been released.

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Britain's Deadly Superdrone Taranis Making It's First Test Flight

Top secret UK drone Taranis makes first flight -- BBC
UK's 'most-advanced' aircraft makes succesful test flights -- AFP
BAE Systems Taranis Combat Drone Shapes Future Attack-Jet Design -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Top secret British combat drone 'Taranis' makes first flight -- L.A. Times
Killer robot flight: Video of UK’s autonomous drone released -- RT
UK Finally Reveals Flight Trials of Taranis UCAS -- AIN Online
Watch the UK's New £185 Million Military Drone Take Flight -- Motherboard
Britain Releases News on Secret Aircraft's Test Flight -- Defense News
VIDEO - Taranis…Out of the Black -- Ares/Aviation Week
UK defence industry has high hopes for unmanned aircraft Taranis -- Reuters

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