Sensorcraft projects and McDonnell Douglas project Diamond

[donnage99]

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2011/January%202011/0111horizons.aspx

 

[Matej]

Interesting. Reincarnation of the IAI HA-10?

 

[flateric]

more Boeing Sensorcraft WT model photos

 

[flateric]

moar

 

[flateric]

NG Sensorcraft planform view from AFA convention
http://defensetech.org/2011/09/20/northrops-advanced-concepts/
(DefenseTech took it for UCLASS, huh)

 

[hesham]

Hi,


http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADa461449&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

 

[quellish]

Better quality NG Sensorcraft render and Sensorcraft's Swept Wing Laminar Flow Control (SWLFC) concept test article, being tested using WhiteKnightOne

A few more photos of the experiment from 2009

 

[flateric]

http://www.nsl.aoe.vt.edu/Sensorcraft.html
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/images/video/video-5-meter-jwsc-1st-flight.html

 

[Sentinel36k]

Everything you could want to know about flow control on sensorcraft. Via AFRL http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a429430.pdf

Sentinel

 

[bring_it_on]

Modeling and Simulation for Sensor Craft Multi-Mission Radar

https://www.scribd.com/doc/254244798/Sensor-Craft

 

[bring_it_on]

Joined-Wing Sensor-Craft Configuration Design
JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT Vol. 43, No. 5, September

https://www.scribd.com/doc/260229140/Sensor-Craft-Rasmussen-Canfield

 

[bring_it_on]

ESTIMATES FOR THE JOINED-WING SENSOR CRAFT

https://www.scribd.com/doc/272670899/Drag-Estimates-for-the-Joined-wing-Sensor-Craft

 

[flateric]

Beauty in the Sky with Diamonds

 

[In_A_Dream]

Looks like Northrop's model's may have been caught in the Western Pacific.

 

[antigravite]

Looks like Northrop's model's may have been caught in the Western Pacific.

?

A.

 

[Manuducati]

Looks like Northrop's model's may have been caught in the Western Pacific.

Post in thread '"RQ-180": Aviation Week & Space Technology's alleged new UAS' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...technologys-alleged-new-uas.20900/post-481976

If that's what you're talking about.

 

[In_A_Dream]

Looks like Northrop's model's may have been caught in the Western Pacific.

Post in thread '"RQ-180": Aviation Week & Space Technology's alleged new UAS' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/th...technologys-alleged-new-uas.20900/post-481976

If that's what you're talking about.

No one knows what the RQ-180 looks like, but the picture taken in the Philippines looks very similar to Northrop's Sensorcraft concept.

 

[MrSlayburyStreet]

So, the question is, did the Northrop Sensorcraft become operational as…shikaka?

 

[hesham]

So, the question is, did the Northrop Sensorcraft become operational as…shikaka?

I think not.

 

[MrSlayburyStreet]

So, the question is, did the Northrop Sensorcraft become operational as…shikaka?

I think not.

Surely there is some similarity? Wingspan around 200’, same shape, etc. Is it for a different mission?

 

[Whisperstream]

So, the question is, did the Northrop Sensorcraft become operational as…shikaka?

It seems extremely likely that the so-called "RQ-180" was derived from the Northrop Grumman SensorCraft configuration. The planform is essentially identical, and scalable, and the concept fits with the "family of systems" philosophy that informed the LRS-B (B-21) acquisition decision process. I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that "Shikaka" helped NGC win the bomber competition.