Friday, January 23, 2009

The Next Revolution In Air Power



From Worldwide War Pigs:

The UCAS test aircraft is almost ready. Interesting quote below. I thought we were told this was not possible to do in modern military aircraft development. Is someone lying to us?

-"A second drone should be completed in 2009. No further vehicles are planned until after the design passes its tests."

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My Comment: The money quote is the following:

Aircraft like this would have already been well on their way through development if it were not for the threat they posed to the pilot mafia and dare I say, F-35 JSF program.

Fighter jocks in their $200 million dollar plane .... or a geek in some bunker in the desert playing with joysticks and looking at a computer screen. It is amazing that the UAV program got off the ground.

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