God of thunder
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Britians ministry of defence unveiled a new stealth un-manned long range attack and re-con aircraft today.... named Taranis after the celtic god of thunder this thing cost £142.5million.....recession what bloody recession!!!

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It can be armed with missiles for ground attack or equiped with re-con cameras and other surveilance equipment, operated by remote via satalite link can be flown around the world by operators based in Britian.
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If Only I could say that was fake, just looks like a smoothed out B-2 spirit except unmanned.

Looks like a space ship.
Coolies, I'm surprised this didn't get on to the news...
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Verhängnis Wrote:If Only I could say that was fake, just looks like a smoothed out B-2 spirit except unmanned.

Looks like a space ship.
Coolies, I'm surprised this didn't get on to the news...


This did make the news thats where i got the info from and the pic!!
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#4

Not national australian television.
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#5

Try yahoo/ news i managed to find something on it there
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#6

Ziggy is right.

here is a link
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/tanaris/

Man!!! if they need desktopp pilots then they no longer have to search further then here!Smile
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VF101hawk Wrote:if they need desktopp pilots then they no longer have to search further then here!
That's not neccessarily a good idea.
IL-2 pilots tend to TNB or BNZ fight at every opportunity.
Furthermore they are suspicious for kill stealing and they generally don't trust AI.

Best regards - Mike
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Storebror Wrote:
VF101hawk Wrote:if they need desktopp pilots then they no longer have to search further then here!
That's not neccessarily a good idea.
IL-2 pilots tend to TNB or BNZ fight at every opportunity.
Furthermore they are suspicious for kill stealing and they generally don't trust AI.

Best regards - Mike
Touché
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#9

Damn man Sad No wonder the world is going bankrupt and on the verge of another world depression era.
The governments are spending millions on robot airplanes and personal cars and houses.
Damn, I wish I could move to another planet. These humans are completely outta of their mind!! NUTS!
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max_thehitman Wrote:Damn man Sad No wonder the world is going bankrupt and on the verge of another world depression era.
The governments are spending millions on robot airplanes and personal cars and houses.
Damn, I wish I could move to another planet. These humans are completely outta of their mind!! NUTS!
"Spanish government spends 9 billion euros every year just for the cars of the politicians"
They should lower their own salary and not save money from schools and hospitals... My friend had to travel 3 hours to get to the doctor because the closer ones were closed due to "High running costs"
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#11

Kevin Rudd I believe gets over Half a Million dollars in Retirment money, Heck! Maybe he should get a Job!
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#12

Cars for Spanish politicians: 9 Billions a year.
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#13

Germany spent 103.2 Billion Euro just to keep a single bank from crashing, which in turn is forced by law to continue paying bonuses to their managers.
This means that each and every german resident had to pay about 1.260 Euro, babies and rentirees included, just to keep a few people's asses gold plated.

Just for comparison: Germany currently spends about 6 Billion Euro per year for foreign aid. Alltogether Germany spent less foreign aid ever since than they spent for that single bank in one single year.

Has this world completely lost the plot? For sure it has.

Best regards - Mike
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#14

The fact it looks a little like a B-2 shouldn't suprise anyone. Stealth technology is bound to dictate that. If certain things make a plane harder to spot, then that's what you use, so we end up with a sort of convergent evolution in design terms.

Now as to whether this will be any good - who knows? The makers and the MoD are trumpeting this thing as the latest word in military stealth - for all I know, they might be right, but it does sound like advertising hype. Historically most aeroplanes lauded at their public unveiling turn out to very mediocre warplanes. It might be interesting to see what happens, but I can't see any way of checking Wink
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caldrail Wrote:The fact it looks a little like a B-2 shouldn't suprise anyone. Stealth technology is bound to dictate that. If certain things make a plane harder to spot, then that's what you use, so we end up with a sort of convergent evolution in design terms.
Not neccessarily.
That's up to the materials you're using.
As long as the main parts of an aircraft's fuselage are made from materials reflecting radar signals, you're right.
On the other hand, an aircraft made of pure composite materials, which themselves are designed to let radar signal pass by, could look like whatever it wants.

Best regards - Mike
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