To be honest i am not that knowledgeable on large UAVs so it could very well be that i am just missing something obvious, but i have asked myself this question for some time: Why are there so few HALE UAVs? There is ofc the Global Hawk/Triton and two Chinese Projects (Soaring Dragon, Divine...
Multiple articles in the Dornier Post mention a drone project called Korps-Aufklärungs-Drohne (Corps-Reconnaissance-Drone) as the German predecessor to the CL-89.
However i can find very little information on it. There is only one article (from 1971) that describes it in some detail. The article...
Red Medium is the program name for the stealthy air adversary UCAV being developed for the USAF aggressor force:
https://www.airforcemag.com/stealth-adversary-air-drone-contract-expected-in-september/
I could've posted this video in a multitude of places but since it turned out to be (among other things) a very compact overall description of a multi-year design study, thought it best to highlight it here. Goes over vehicle design iterations as well as software, market, customer convenience...
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