Israel unveils huge drones that can reach Iran

[Highfalutin]

Attempt was made to fly and crash a bomber into a high value target in WWII by remote control with the command and control input from a nearby flying mother ship aircraft. Something went wrong and it blew up before reaching it's target.

Any country can build a remote control aircraft with or without external help. Especially so with the necessity of using propeller engines for range and endurance. Just search youtube for the range of home made giant scale RC aircraft available! The difference between toys and military drones are in the range at which it can be controlled remotely, size comes from the need for attitude(detection prevention) and fuel payload for endurance.

And most importantly of all, the avionics and surveillance technology which can be found only in the most sophisticated of technologically advanced countries. What is being displayed and used is only the fore front of the future when full application of pilot-less fighting aircraft will be the way battles are fought.

Drones that carries and fires a pair of hellfire missiles can only be done in failed states like Iraq and Afghanistan. Try that with Iran.

As for the contention that remote aircraft can be trailed back to their bases of origin, isn't it the case since the dawn of combat aircraft? Well, try to trail the hundreds to a thousand that are heading back after missions in the next war! WWII cost in dollars per flying platform is not the same as in the present and will cost even more in the future!.

 

[longbow]

You are right about endurance. The technology is to be able to track UAV from afar and for UAV to have the endurance.

But from counter measure side things can be relatively low tech. What about equipping hundreds of low tech UAV (slight better than remote control planes) each armed with a SAM type tracking system but with the ability to stay aloft for 2 hours at a time and each carrying a rudimentary explosive. No need for sat nav, no need for endurance basically a SAM with the ability to refuel indefinately and an endurance of 2 hours. If somehow radio communications is lost, UAV goes into default mode and fly in circles and after a time, cut engine and pops build in paracute and glide back to earth.

A Stinger missile only weight 15 kilo and it has a range of 5K. If you build an UAV with total payload of 100kg, equip it with 2 hour endurance it makes for a formidable weapon.

If we take it a little further with a simple radar tracking system and and radio download of data, a swarm of 50 of these mini UAV could feed active radar info into a computer and ........

Attempt was made to fly and crash a bomber into a high value target in WWII by remote control with the command and control input from a nearby flying mother ship aircraft. Something went wrong and it blew up before reaching it's target.

Any country can build a remote control aircraft with or without external help. Especially so with the necessity of using propeller engines for range and endurance. Just search youtube for the range of home made giant scale RC aircraft available! The difference between toys and military drones are in the range at which it can be controlled remotely, size comes from the need for attitude(detection prevention) and fuel payload for endurance.

And most importantly of all, the avionics and surveillance technology which can be found only in the most sophisticated of technologically advanced countries. What is being displayed and used is only the fore front of the future when full application of pilot-less fighting aircraft will be the way battles are fought.

Drones that carries and fires a pair of hellfire missiles can only be done in failed states like Iraq and Afghanistan. Try that with Iran.

As for the contention that remote aircraft can be trailed back to their bases of origin, isn't it the case since the dawn of combat aircraft? Well, try to trail the hundreds to a thousand that are heading back after missions in the next war! WWII cost in dollars per flying platform is not the same as in the present and will cost even more in the future!.

 

[whoami]

What does 'Thou shall not kill'
in the Ten Commandments MEAN?

Murder is the unlawfully taking of human life. The command not to murder applies to human beings, not to killing animals or plant life for food.

"Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." (1John 3:15, NKJV).

Under the New Covenant a change occurred. Just as Christians are to no longer execute sinners, so they should not wage carnal war, but spiritual warfare (John 18:36; 2 Corinthians 10:1-6; Ephesians 6:10-18; 1 Timothy 1:18-20; 6:11-14; 2 Timothy 2:3-5; 4:6-8). Christians must be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9, Romans 14:19), forgiving those who do them harm (Ephesians 4:29-32; Colossians 3:12-14; Matthew 6:9-15; Mark 11:25-26), treating their enemies with love (Luke 6:27-36) and not seeking revenge (Romans 12:17-21; 1 Peter 3:8-12). Hatred which is the same as murder (1 John 3:15), is unforgiving, vengeful and hostile towards one's enemies.

Written by: Calvin Lashway

U should go ask Uncle SAM.