SAGITTA: EADS-Cassidian Stealth UAV project

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Hi,

I'm not sure this Sagita project has already been listed here on SPF, so I'm creating this new thread.

source: http://defense-update.com/20131117_sagitta.html

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The 1st flight test should happen in 2015.

The aforementioned article says that:

"The integration of the aircraft is taking place at Cassidian’s Military Air Systems Center Manching, close to Munich. The reference configuration for the research work is a tailless flying wing with a wingspan of 12 metres. The demonstrator will initially be built on a scale of 1:4. The first wind tunnel tests have already been successfully completed."
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"The Open Innovation Programme Sagitta consists of a total of seven research areas of UAS development: preliminary aircraft design, aerodynamics, flight control systems, communications and data processing, vision-based flight control and air-to-air refuelling, materials and structure, autonomous flight and mission control, simulation and systems integration."

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And yes, it might be related to one patent found some times ago and listed on this patent thread below…

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,19422.0.html

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PS) Cutting and pasting is a pain in the A*** I always got trouble doing so! i do it again...

 

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Gosh! It's not very news. It was presented at the Paris Air show 2013, seemingly.

To moderator: Errrr… did I miss anything once again, by creating this news thread?
Could find no dedicated thread prior me opening a new one.

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Images from:

http://www.donaukurier.de/_/tools/picview.html?_CMELEM=2066198
http://www.unibw.de/fmff/Forschung/Projekte/SAGITTA

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… and the youtube project video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8h2LzrZAXI


That's all for today, folks.

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One more interesting link:

http://www.dglr.de/publikationen/2013/281220.pdf

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