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2004-08-25 Home Front: Tech

Northrop gets $1bn to build unmanned fighter

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Posted by Steve White 2004-08-25 12:30:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Here's DARPA's J-UCAS Overview page with specs, info, and photos of both UAV's.

Posted by .com 2004-08-25 3:13:32 AM|| 2004-08-25 3:13:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Looking at the X-45 and X-47 pics from .com's link, I think I can safely predict an uptick in the number of UFO reports over the next few years.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2004-08-25 4:10:05 AM|| 2004-08-25 4:10:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I can safely predict an uptick in the number of UFO reports

Oh no...more kooks on coast to coast radio.

Posted by Rafael 2004-08-25 4:15:59 AM|| 2004-08-25 4:15:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What's this unmanned nonsense?

Posted by A Shepard 2004-08-25 8:06:25 AM|| 2004-08-25 8:06:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 " The Americans have recruited little gray infidels! Allan help us! "

Posted by Charles 2004-08-25 8:11:17 AM|| 2004-08-25 8:11:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Check out what the crew of the"Old Dog"(Dale Brown)have been doing latly.

Authors like Brown and Clancy blow me away.I am always reading about advanced milltech before it is general knowledge.

Posted by raptor 2004-08-25 10:31:46 AM|| 2004-08-25 10:31:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 LOL #3... could there possibly BE any more than are currently there?

Posted by eLarson 2004-08-25 11:22:47 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-08-25 11:22:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Here's a $64 question: why haven't they fielded a robotic Stryker yet? Smaller, faster, more heavily armored, more weaponry, lighter. I know that robotic tanks have been wanted since the German wire-guided mini-tank of WWII. If you want a happy medium, why not make a remotely controlled robot with just a single crewman for whatever special purpose?

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-25 12:19:33 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:19:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Anonymoose, be patient, they are on the way. Small remote vehicles with medium and light machine guns are close to being fielded. These are a nasty piece of kit. There are many UGV programs in the works right now and more and more of these are going to mount weapons. There probably won't be a remote vehicle with a weapon as large as the 120mm smoothbore of the Abrams for a long time due to safety considerations, but the smaller stuff is about ready to rock.

Posted by remote man 2004-08-25 12:33:45 PM|| 2004-08-25 12:33:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Didn't I see Chevy Chase hawking these things a while back?...

Posted by mojo 2004-08-25 4:37:03 PM|| 2004-08-25 4:37:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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