US Airmen Prepare Massive $230 Million Drone for Extreme Spy Mission
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Published 2024-04-29
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All Comments (21)
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In April 2001, an RQ-4 drone flew from the U.S.A. and landed at the RAAF base at Edinborough, South Australia - all by itself (ie. entirely autonomous, if I remember correctly).
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Just amazing.
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There’s no way this capability would cost 200M+ if designed with the technology available today. Just look at what Anduril can do with their drones. The old US defense contractors have been fleecing the US taxpayer for decades.
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Many thanks!👍👍
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sitting at the threshold in Kandahar watching these things take off and land was amazing. The first time i saw them the pilots were talking to tower and i thought it was a normal aircraft. Astonishing.
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Those downlocks look more expensive than my car.
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Huge Bird...amazing footage.
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Couldn't agree more! It's an exciting and thrilling adventure.
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10:02. Loving that twin-cylinder 'turboprop' engine.
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Just a beautiful bird
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The fact that is is a YouTube video makes me think this must be old technology.
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Very nice!
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☠BLACK BARON☠ 4:46 The Tech Signs on top of the V-Wings works.
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Love
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Looks like the Alien from the movie Aliens
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VAMOS PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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The landing gear locks 0:53 seem over-engineered compared to those log-on-a-rope chocks! You'd think they'd also have high-tech chocks or also use axe-hewn trestles or something. I don't know, the two extremes just struck me...
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Less video, more content maybe. Not sure how Globalhawk went from $10m flyaway to $230m... seems rather absurd. A 787 costs this much. Its an old design. WTF?
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Those actuators were $500000 to produce.
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Watched it fly around my location a while back and it looked like parts were falling off in flight. 😮
