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...
The Navy MQ-4C Triton is designed to provide the Navy with an advanced autonomous air vehicle and state of the art service-oriented architecture mission control system that will enable it to provide persistent maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) directly to the maritime...
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Keeping in line with his habit of putting out a new aircraft every year or so, Burt Rutan registered two new types in 2010 and 2011.
First one is the Scaled Composites LLC Model 355 (N355SX, c/n 001), a fixed wing twin-boom single pusher type certified on 24 Nov 2009 and manufactured in 2010...
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