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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:07 pm ]
Post subject:  MoD lifts lid on unmanned combat plane prototype
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10602105.stm

Hold on I thought that the benefit of joining the Air Force was that you could fly to foreign countries before you dropped bombs on them. Now you can do that from your bedroom. :shock:
Author:  Nick [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:09 pm ]
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Taranis is a concept design for a long-range strike plane that has taken over three million man hours to produce.


3,000,000 man hours? :o :shock:
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 5:57 pm ]
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Interesting. That's the sort of thing you'd expect the Yanks to be making rather than us.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:03 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Interesting. That's the sort of thing you'd expect the Yanks to be making rather than us.

We still have an excellent arms industry. It is a bright spot in manufacturing for the UK.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:06 pm ]
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It's not our arms industry's capabilities I doubt. Meerly the government funding available for these sort of projects.
Author:  Linux_User [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:25 pm ]
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I don't like this one bit. Anything that takes troops away from the battlefield and thus desensitises them to the grief and hurt their actions cause can only be a bad thing (particularly the bombing of civilian targets).
Author:  Nick [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:49 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Interesting. That's the sort of thing you'd expect the Yanks to be making rather than us.


Well maybe some of the technology could be sold to them in the future.
Author:  EddArmitage [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:51 pm ]
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l3v1ck wrote:
Interesting. That's the sort of thing you'd expect the Yanks to be making rather than us.

I have to admit I was surprised when I first heard about it.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:56 pm ]
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This will end badly, we all know it.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:07 am ]
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A less favourable view

It's a year late, it was built with no obvious market or objective in mind, we can't afford it any more and the incoming defense review will probably say we won't buy it and BAE have been shedding UK jobs in favour of the jobs in the US (where the real defense contract money is) all through it's development.

Jon
Author:  adidan [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:11 am ]
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Linux_User wrote:
I don't like this one bit. Anything that takes troops away from the battlefield and thus desensitises them to the grief and hurt their actions cause can only be a bad thing (particularly the bombing of civilian targets).

Indeed. This is when CoD MW players become soldiers. Bad, very bad.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:13 am ]
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adidan wrote:
Linux_User wrote:
I don't like this one bit. Anything that takes troops away from the battlefield and thus desensitises them to the grief and hurt their actions cause can only be a bad thing (particularly the bombing of civilian targets).

Indeed. This is when CoD MW players become soldiers. Bad, very bad.

Anyone seen the film Toys?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/plotsummary
Author:  jonlumb [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:15 am ]
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Linux_User wrote:
I don't like this one bit. Anything that takes troops away from the battlefield and thus desensitises them to the grief and hurt their actions cause can only be a bad thing (particularly the bombing of civilian targets).


Not sure I follow this. Aren't these planes primarily taking on roles already done by pilots? As such, they're normally too far away from their target to see anything that personal.

Also, my understanding is we don't bomb civilian targets except by accident (but I could be wrong on this) as the PR is just terrible.
Author:  veato [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:25 am ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
A less favourable view

It's a year late, it was built with no obvious market or objective in mind, we can't afford it any more and the incoming defense review will probably say we won't buy it and BAE have been shedding UK jobs in favour of the jobs in the US (where the real defense contract money is) all through it's development.

Jon


Yeah but it looks [LIFTED] cool
Author:  Fogmeister [ Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:33 am ]
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veato wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
A less favourable view

It's a year late, it was built with no obvious market or objective in mind, we can't afford it any more and the incoming defense review will probably say we won't buy it and BAE have been shedding UK jobs in favour of the jobs in the US (where the real defense contract money is) all through it's development.

Jon


Yeah but it looks [LIFTED] cool

+1

It actually first reminded me of the Cylon fighter from BSG.

Image

Well, maybe a little bit :D
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