Your Quick Guide To Killer Drones -- David Axe, War Is Boring
The future of air warfare is 50 feet across, shaped like a bat.
In early February the British Ministry of Defense pranked the aviation world with the surprise announcement that its Taranis jet-powered drone prototype flew for the first time … six months ago. The ministry and manufacturer BAE Systems managed to keep the whole thing a secret.
Taranis is only the latest in a growing stable of high-performance robot warplane prototypes meant, ultimately, to be armed with missiles and bombs.
Most of them share certain characteristics. They’re jet-propelled and shaped more or less like bats, lending them high subsonic speed and a certain amount of radar stealth, but possibly less endurance than older, propeller-driven robot models—just 12 hours instead of 24.
They’re all between 30 and 66 feet from wingtip to wingtip. And if they don’t already have internal weapons bays, they’ll surely get them, as that’s a requirement for avoiding radar detection.
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My Comment: These are the aerial drones .... expect naval and ground drones to be coming soon. The above video is from the PBS program Nova.
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