Author Topic: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)  (Read 88468 times)

Offline jcf

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #175 on: September 07, 2015, 12:01:10 PM »
Dude's a little out of date, the C-17 has been Boeing badged since 1997.
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #176 on: September 07, 2015, 09:55:16 PM »
I have to ask "WTF?" on those nacelles on the V-22 concept.  He's got IR suppressors on both ends but no intakes.  Too, I suspect the cockpit area would be reworked like that of the Model 407 for MQ-8C conversion rather than whole new structure.

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #177 on: October 03, 2015, 05:42:52 AM »
Found online:

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #178 on: October 03, 2015, 08:07:07 AM »
Interesting!
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #179 on: October 22, 2015, 05:03:19 AM »
I didn't go back through the thread to look, but at looking at the parts of the Skunkworks F-16XL, my thought was ''that canopy has to come off!''    Smooth that area right over and fly it out of some basement somewhere.

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #180 on: October 25, 2015, 06:45:57 AM »
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #181 on: January 11, 2016, 11:04:32 PM »
"They know you can do anything, So the question is, what don't you do?"

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #182 on: June 19, 2016, 08:14:31 AM »
Start here:



End here:





Story (and more pics) here
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #183 on: April 30, 2017, 06:16:44 AM »
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #184 on: May 27, 2017, 06:08:20 AM »
The latest in anti-UAV defences:  The giant fly swat ;) ;D:



Seriously though, it is the capture system for the UAV shown.
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #185 on: May 27, 2017, 06:17:39 AM »
Something different:

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #186 on: May 27, 2017, 10:36:26 AM »
Something different:



Guy at the shooting stage:  "PULL!"

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #187 on: May 27, 2017, 03:44:37 PM »
It looks like there's a screaming monkey strapped inside it! :o
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #188 on: March 12, 2018, 02:22:55 AM »
All engine...or just about:




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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #189 on: March 12, 2018, 10:27:21 AM »
"In Russia, engine flies you!"    ;)

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #190 on: March 19, 2018, 01:05:46 AM »
What to do with your old C-130s:

https://youtu.be/_PCvSSTfJmk
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #191 on: March 19, 2018, 01:15:59 AM »
What to do with your old C-130s:

https://youtu.be/_PCvSSTfJmk

This is cool. No GSE required for the actual loading / unloading activity.  Just for pre-positioning and post-unloading.
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I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #192 on: May 18, 2018, 02:30:29 AM »
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #193 on: September 12, 2018, 04:05:36 AM »
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #195 on: March 01, 2019, 08:44:54 AM »
Not sure exactly what these would qualify as.  Replaced by ballistic missiles, Regulus II and Navaho get repurposed as recce vehicles, transmitting their "take" to U-2s flying in international airspace. Just an idea that this would be a better use for them than being target drones.

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #196 on: March 02, 2019, 01:17:32 AM »
That could work though one would need to assure the USSR at the time that they were not armed.
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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #197 on: March 02, 2019, 02:03:26 AM »
That could work though one would need to assure the USSR at the time that they were not armed.
True, that would definitely need to be dealt with in a private manner.  You don't want to provoke a war and I have to wonder what quid pro quo they would want in return.

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Re: Uninhabited and Unafraid, (UCAV, UAV, and Drone Aircraft)
« Reply #198 on: July 21, 2019, 04:53:48 AM »
Does anyone know of a kit (preferably 1/35) of either the CL-227 Sentinel or CL-327 Guardian style UAVs:



Or perhaps the Sikorsky Cypher, in the same scale:



I could probably scratch build something but figured its easier to ask first.
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