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SECRET RQ-180 "WHITE BAT" SPY DRONE IS FINALY REVEALED || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHIG DEFENSE)

This Russian Drone Shocked America! (Credits- AXX Military)

The X-47B UCAV aircraft

Exposed: Behind the U.S. Navy's Killer Drone Strategy Shift ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

X-47 abroad Aircraft Carrier George H.W Bush ( CVN-77)  ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States Navy)  Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar The U.S. Navy has chosen to develop an unmanned carrier-based aerial refueling tanker, instead of a robotic stealth bomber in a decision that, in effect, kills two birds with one stone. Firstly, it gives the service a chance to learn how to operate a drone from a flattop. Secondly, the Navy needs an organic carrier-based aerial refueling capability to extend the range of its stealthy Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighters and Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. As an added bonus, it also takes some of the pressure off the hard-ridden tactical fighter fleet. “I want to get something on the deck of an aircraft carrier—unmanned—as quickly as we can with a legitimate role to play because there is so much we have got to learn there,” Adm. John Richardson, U.S. Navy’s chief of naval operations, told an aud

China Unveils Its Largest Killer Drone To Date ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Franz StefanGady)

MQ-9 Reaper ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- United States Army) Source- The Diplomat Author- Franz Stefan- Gady China’s heaviest attack and reconnaissance drone to date, the Caihong 5 (CH-5), or Rainbow 5 recently made its maiden flight at an undisclosed airfield in Gansu province, according to China Military Online. The UAV’s maiden flight, conducted in the early morning, lasted only about 20 minutes, although the new UAV can allegedly stay in the air for more than 30 hours. According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese state television announced that the debut of the Rainbow 5 will “change the game in airstrikes.” The CH-5, developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), appears to be based on the United States’ MQ-9 Reaper drone design and has a wingspan of 20 meters (66 feet) and a takeoff weight of about 3 tons. It can carry a maximum payload of around 900 kilograms – which allegedly is 2.5 times more than prev

India’s Armed Drone Fleet ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Saurav Jha)

Rostom-1 UAV ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- Kaushal Mehta) Source- The Diplomat Author- Saurav Jha With even Pakistan now sporting an armed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed with Chinese assistance, India has decided to accelerate the development of its own weaponized drone fleet. The process of weaponizing an indigenously developed UAV has commenced and the elements required to operate an armed drone fleet, such as a high accuracy satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) and dedicated military communication satellites, are being put in place anyway. Work is also underway on a stealthy unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV). Despite this, India still has to make some progress on the collision avoidance technology needed to give its drones the flexibility to use civilian airspace. It will also need to increase satellite bandwidth considerably to increase the tempo of armed UAV flights. In the next few years limited use of drone strikes near India’s border

Image of China's twin-fuselage drone appears on internet ( Source- Want China Times)

Source- Internet Image Source- Want China Times China has revealed an image of its new twin-fuselage turbofan-powered unmanned aerial vehicle on the internet for the first time, US expert of Chinese military development Richard Fisher wrote for the UK-based IHS Jane's Defence Weekly on May 29. Known as "Project 973" or "Shen Diao," the drone is understood to have been designed by the 601 Institute of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Earlier concept art of the drone showed a leading-edge mounted canard-wing configuration, apparently designed as a high-altitude near space vehicle to carry out surveillance, cuing and communication missions. However, the first actual photo of the drone from the Chinese website showed that the drone has two bulbous-nosed fuselages while the canard wing is mounted between them but not at the leading edge. Meanwhile, it is fitted with a much longer high-aspect ratio wing mounted aft. An apparent high-bypass turbofan

The U.S. Miilitary's Fighter Aircraft Crisis: What Comes After the F-35? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Hasik)

The X-47 B UCAV on trials ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- United States Navy by MC2 Timothy Walter) Source- The National interest Author- James Hasik Earlier this year, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert said that he believed that the F/A-XX, the Navy’s planned eventual follow-on to the F-35C, would be "optionally manned". On April 15 at the Sea-Air-Space conference, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus leaned further forward, noting how he believed that "the F-35 should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.” At the same time, Mabus announced that he would be establishing a new post of deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems—a secretary of drones, so to speak. That evening, Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman John McCain said that “I hope the sentiments expressed by Secretary Mabus… will be reflected in the Navy's future program

THINKING ABOUT MILITARY HISTORY IN AN AGE OF DRONES, HACKERS AND IEDS – ANALYSIS (SOURCE- EURASIA REVIEW/ AUTHOR- PAUL J.SPRINGER)

X-47 B UAV ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- United States navy by Eric Hildebrandt)  Source- Eurasia Review Author- Paul J. Springer We live in a transitional period in the history of human conflicts. Military robotics and cyber capabilities constitute a Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) that will permanently alter the nature of warfare. The United States, which leads in the creation and adoption of these forms of technology, has the unique opportunity to shape the RMA and prevent some of its negative consequences, but only if it acts quickly and decisively to lead an international movement that can address the worst potential consequences of these developments. Absent such a determined effort, military robots and cyber capabilities are likely to make human conflict even more painful and costly, not only for uniformed military organizations but also for the noncombatant civilian populations of the world. A Brief Introduction to RMAs RMAs permanently

Unmanned 'Killer Robots': A New Weapon in the US Navy's Future Arsenal? ( Source- The Diplomat / Author- Franz Stefan-Gady)

MQ-9 (Image source- Wikimedia Commons/ Source- United States Air Force) Source- The Diplomat Author- Franz Stefan-Gady This week, U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced that he will streamline the navy’s efforts to keep up with advances in unmanned technology by appointing a new Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems, who will bring “together all the many stakeholders and operators who are currently working on this technology.” “Additionally, the Navy Staff will add a new office for unmanned in the N-9, the N-Code for Warfare Systems, so that all aspects of unmanned – in all domains – over, on and under the sea and coming from the sea to operate on land – will be coordinated and championed,” the secretary noted. As as Breaking Defense reported today, this may help the U.S. military’s push to acquire genuine autonomously operating weapon systems. Breaking Defense’s Sydney Freedberg Jr. muses:  Imagine a swarm of buzzing, scuttling or swimm

Did Iran Just Create a Stealth Drone from Captured American Tech? ( Source- The National Interest, Author- Dave Majumdar)

RQ170- Sentinel ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ Author-Truth Dowser Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar Sources familiar with the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned reconnaissance aircraft tell the National Interest that Iran’s copy of the drone is probably a fake. Iran’s claims that it built a 60 percent scale prototype of an unmanned combat aircraft reverse engineered from a RQ-170 that crashed over that country in December 2011. Iran claims that it downed the aircraft via a cyberattack while at least one U.S. official said that Tehran’s account might not be entirely inaccurate. Earlier in the week, Iranian state television released a video that allegedly shows the Sentinel knock-off in the air. An aerospace engineer familiar with the RQ-170 said that the Iranian machine is most likely not a prototype, but something more akin to a remote controlled toy, given what is shown in the video footage. The original U.S.-made RQ-170 was not a small aircr

Demo on ATOL Role of Rustom-1 UAV ( Copy Right @ The Express News Service)

Rustom-1 ( Image credits- Wikimedia commons/ Author- Kaushal Mehta) BANGALORE: Defence scientists at the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) are closing in on enabling the country’s Rustom-1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) capability. The ATOL configuration, to be demonstrated by this yearend, would increase the endurance and payload-carrying capacity of the UAV. Insiders linked to the project told Express that the ATOL feature would add more teeth to the Rustom-1 while undertaking prolonged missions. “We will be able to carry more fuel for missions, which require the UAV to be airborne for longer durations. Instead of more fuel, different types of payloads can be integrated on the UAV, which will give it an additional operational advantage. At present, we are in the process of evaluating some of the sensors required for the ATOL implementation. Extensive real-time simulation has been initiated on the UAV flight simulator to de