Du weißt schon, dass die X47B aufgrund ihrer unzureichenden Ausstattung abgelehnt wurde oder?Larry08 schrieb am 01.02.2019:Man muss die eigene Propaganda nur oft genug wiederholen dann wird alles gut.
Es kommt nicht auf das Design, sondern auf die Funktionalität an.
Die X47B ist nicht wegen unzureichender Fähigkeiten gecancelt worden.gentoo schrieb:Du weißt schon, dass die X47B aufgrund ihrer unzureichenden Ausstattung abgelehnt wurde oder?
Was bringt dem Militär ein Pseudofuture-Design, was mit Fahrwerk aussieht wie das Fahrrad von Jigsaw, wenn es praktisch unbrauchbar für UCLASS ist.
Dann hieß es jetzt bitte Tankerdrone und die Stealthanforderungen wurden gesenkt und strike Möglichkeiten gestrichen. Ergebnis der Ausschreibung war die Stingray, welche als Tanker logischerweise "bauchiger" ausfällt und halt nicht mehr 100% Stealth sein muss.
Komm wir lassen eine Brotdose fliegen?
Russia's second mass-produced fifth-generation Su-57 fighter jet will be put into service in the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2020, Alexander Pekarsh, the director of Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant, manufacturing the aircraft, said.https://sputniknews.com/military/201902261072742455-russia-su-57-commissioning-timeline/
"We are working on two aircraft under the contract with the Defense Ministry, with the deadline for the delivery of the first aircraft set for 2019, and for the second aircraft for 2020", the director told reporters.
Just a week after Boeing unveiled their export-centric 'loyal wingman' combat drone concept, the Air Force Research Lab has announced that their own similar endeavor, dubbed the XQ-58A Valkyrie, has made its first flight. It also posted the very first image of the aircraft that has been developed under a veil of secrecy over the last two and half years.http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26825/air-forces-secretive-xq-58a-valkyrie-experimental-combat-drone-emerges-after-first-flight (Archiv-Version vom 07.03.2019)
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It is hoped that the XQ-58A will provide a low cost surveillance, strike, and electronic warfare support capability that can be operated independently, as a cooperative swarm, or as part of a so called 'loyal wingman' concept of operations a group of Q-58s would work under the command of a nearby manned combat aircraft. The stealthy drone, which supposedly has a range of well over 2,000 miles and is capable of carrying a pair of Small Diameter Bombs or electronic warfare and surveillance gear, is also capable of being launched using rocket boosters instead of relying on runways alone.
Kratos Defense, the drone's manufacturer that is best known for its catalog of highly respected target drones, and the AFRL have always envisioned the XQ-58, above all else, as being a disruptor when it comes to cost. We described this in an earlier piece on the program:
LCASD aims to be able to eventually field a optionally reusable, highly adaptable, low-end unmanned combat air vehicle for $3 million apiece for batches of up to 99 aircraft per year, or $2 million each for yearly orders of 100 or more. In essence, the LCASD concept is “high-volume” both in the strategy behind it and in terms of procuring it affordably.
