A Quick Guide To Killer Drones

<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/IOzCiCl05Ec" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Your Quick Guide To Killer Drones -- David Axe, War Is Boring</b></span></div><br /><i>The future of air warfare is 50 feet across, shaped like a bat.</i><br /><br />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.<br /><br />Taranis is only the latest in a growing stable of high-performance robot warplane prototypes meant, ultimately, to be armed with missiles and bombs.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><b><a href="https://medium.com/p/7f1b5a4e8ddc">Read more</a></b> ....<br /><br /><b>My Comment:</b> These are the aerial drones .... expect naval and ground drones to be coming soon. The above video is from the PBS program Nova.

A Quick Guide To Killer Drones

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 Febru...

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