Boeing Dominator air-launched UAV

This Boeing video from 2006 shows its Dominator air-launched unmanned air vehicle concept - also known as the ScanEagle Compressed Carriage. Stay with it to see the UAV refuel the UAV!

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Science & Technology

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• unmanned
• aircraft
• UAV
• Boeing
• ScanEagle

[grieske]

@Helge129 I was being sarcastic. Ten thousand dollars is nothing for such an organization. Half an hour of flight time is more than enough. GPS is globally available to everyone, and so are cell phones. Selective availability won't help in this case, because they wouldn't know when to do it until it's too late.

[Helge129]

@grieske You do realise that ten thousand dollars for a goverment is less than small change, right?

[grieske]

@ejdiii333 That's right. They would have to spend over ten thousand dollars to make their own swarm, and they still wouldn't have more than half an hour of flight time. Also, without GPS, navigation is quite hard to do unless an operator or a couple of radio stations (cell phone transceivers for instance) are nearby. The USA can just use selective availability of GPS to turn it off.

[jethromayham]

We need a fleet of 700 to completely cover Afganistan, Used as a suicide missile, it just a payback to the suicidal rat bastards.

Out weapon will go to UAV heaven whiloe the Taliban in up in hell.

[jethromayham]

@96nicklena Both u ninny. j/k

[pbolte]

As long as the government supports efforts such as these, no jabs from me. I served with none of this technology. If it saves a single soldier's life I'm all for it and please use my tax dollars towards this effort. If 100 of these are lost, to save a soldier's life is worth my money.

If it costs $2 million for a single life, its future, its family, its potential, then it's worth it to me.

As a small addendum....if you jab at the government, you punch yourself in the face. That's US.

[pbolte]

Only if they're not funded. But they're not illegal. These are war weapons and ours.

[pbolte]

Yeah. F-22's F-117's and Predators in OUR air force.  We clear, the engage. This is a tactical UAV to engage ground forces. It isn't an air-to-air weapon.

[pbolte]

uhhhhh.....from satellites? Where do you get your GPS from?

[pbolte]

It's both. It has 3 explosive charges it can drop. If that fails, it has an explosive warhead and can be used in a "kamikaze" attack. The nice thing about is it is that it's cheap. We can put hundreds in the air without losing a single life.