Date: 6/02/2014 22:46:51
From: dv
ID: 483401
Subject: Taranis Drone

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-06/taranis-drone-uk-mod-bae-systems-woomera-south-australia/5242636

Taranis drone: Britain’s $336m supersonic unmanned aircraft launched over Woomera
By Matthew Grimson and Mark Corcoran

The first vision of a state-of-the-art drone touted as the future of British warfare has been released, showing it soaring over what is thought to be Woomera in remote South Australia.
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“It’s a combination of both being very routine – almost boring – and also incredibly exciting. It’s a difficult thing to articulate.”

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Date: 6/02/2014 23:03:11
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 483435
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

Air warfare will eventually be completely manless.
Attack missions will be done by cruise missiles and defence operations will be done by these little chaps.

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Date: 6/02/2014 23:21:56
From: dv
ID: 483460
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

Peak Warming Man said:


Air warfare will eventually be completely manless.

100% chicks

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Date: 6/02/2014 23:25:21
From: Michael V
ID: 483463
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

How good would that be! Chicks in uniforms. :)

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Date: 6/02/2014 23:26:07
From: Skunkworks
ID: 483465
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

Peak Warming Man said:


Air warfare will eventually be completely manless.
Attack missions will be done by cruise missiles and defence operations will be done by these little chaps.

Yeah the American military reckon the F-22 will be the last manned fighter. The only reason there is air warfare is to take control of the air and deny it to another, in the future that can probablt be done better with systems of systems, surveillance and swarm technologies, lingering presence etc. No real reason for a person to be involved.

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Date: 6/02/2014 23:27:31
From: roughbarked
ID: 483466
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

uniforms are sexy, coming off.

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Date: 7/02/2014 23:43:34
From: Cymek
ID: 484264
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

I imagine a flesh and blood pilot might also limit the maneuvers a highly advanced jet fighter can perform so eventually they are removed from the equation.

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Date: 8/02/2014 00:23:48
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 484320
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

Very nice to see Woomera in use again. I thought it had just about been scrapped. The last I heard of its real use (as opposed to a proposed use by Kistler Aerospace that never eventuated) was a high altitude balloon flight.

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Date: 8/02/2014 19:11:30
From: Cymek
ID: 484904
Subject: re: Taranis Drone

mollwollfumble said:


Very nice to see Woomera in use again. I thought it had just about been scrapped. The last I heard of its real use (as opposed to a proposed use by Kistler Aerospace that never eventuated) was a high altitude balloon flight.

I thought they tested (or perhaps it was only proposed) SCRAM jet engines there

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