BAE Systems wants to grow military aircraft in chemical vats

Modern military aircraft are so complex that fighters like the F-35 Lightning II or the Typhoon take 20 years to go from drawing board to deployment at phenomenal costs. With design work already starting on next-generation fighters for the 2040s, BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow are looking at a faster, cheaper way to produce unmanned air vehicles (UAV), where they aren’t constructed, but grown in computer-controlled chemical vats in a matter weeks.

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the enemy would hack in and change the formula of the material and build design

then you’d have an aircraft called the Lightning that can’t go near lightening – I give you the f35

wookiemeister said:

the enemy would hack in and change the formula of the material and build design

then you’d have an aircraft called the Lightning that can’t go near lightening – I give you the f35

Tip a bottle of good Scotch into the vat and see what you get.

>>>the enemy would hack in and change the formula of the material and build design

Don’t you think that would be noticed?

bob(from black rock) said:

wookiemeister said:

the enemy would hack in and change the formula of the material and build design

then you’d have an aircraft called the Lightning that can’t go near lightening – I give you the f35

Tip a bottle of good Scotch into the vat and see what you get.

Ye’ll git te Starship bleedin Enterprise thets whit ye’ll git……….

CrazyNeutrino said:

>>>the enemy would hack in and change the formula of the material and build design

Don’t you think that would be noticed?

no it could introduced by someone such as a contractor or agent

will it be self-healing like the liberator, have a computer named zen, and a brain in a perspex box called orac, a force wall and a herculanium hull

transition said:

will it be self-healing like the liberator, have a computer named zen, and a brain in a perspex box called orac, a force wall and a herculanium hull

If my memory is OK, orac was a right pain in the arse.

CrazyNeutrino said:

BAE Systems wants to grow military aircraft in chemical vats

Modern military aircraft are so complex that fighters like the F-35 Lightning II or the Typhoon take 20 years to go from drawing board to deployment at phenomenal costs. With design work already starting on next-generation fighters for the 2040s, BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow are looking at a faster, cheaper way to produce unmanned air vehicles (UAV), where they aren’t constructed, but grown in computer-controlled chemical vats in a matter weeks.

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ie. 3-D printing of UAV bodies. Not an extremely new idea, but rather neat.

you need to be able to print up thousands of units in a matter of hours in case of an attack or to a attack a rival

you need to print up thoysands of air to air missile carrying electric drones

it could act as a defence mechanism for intruding air that or missiles

the drones throw up thoysands of missiles that will saturate an area with missiles

a special missile could be a FAB type , it only needs to be in the vicinity to throw a missile off

shipping lanes could be cut as thpusands of drones roam the skies or quietly skim the ocean after floating in the water quietly recharging

land based drones with machine guns could sit uni served until an invading army come their way and it opens up until it’s ammo run out ( you inflict maximum damage all at once ) the empty machine lures the enemy into another kill zone )

wookiemeister said:

shipping lanes could be cut as thpusands of drones roam the skies or quietly skim the ocean after floating in the water quietly recharging

land based drones with machine guns could sit uni served until an invading army come their way and it opens up until it’s ammo run out ( you inflict maximum damage all at once ) the empty machine lures the enemy into another kill zone )

makes the sign of the cross and runs inside pulling the curtains