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Aurora Excalibur VTOL UAV First Flight

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Aurora Flight Sciences video of the first flight of its Excalibur experimental vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft. The 13ft-long UAV is powered by a tilting jet engine and three battery-powered lift fans. The aircraft made its first hover flight, lasting just under 2min, at Aberdeen proving Gorund in maryland on June 24. Excalibur is a proof-of-principle testbed for a 400kt VTOL unmanned combat aircraft. (This is a slightly different version of the video previously uploaded - my apologies.) For more info on Excalibur, visit www.aviationweek.com

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  • Thats just cool technology, science is amazing.

  • I seriously doubt this would be easier to shoot down than it’s equivalent manned aircraft an attack helicopter. It is much smaller, faster, and would likely be equipped with the same kind of countermeasures of an attack helicopter. Judging on the size of its single turbine engine I would guess it has a smaller infrared signature than any manned aircraft of equivalent size and performance too.

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  • ... Commenators Pitch of VOICE... does not fit ... Need more Man Voice...

  • At least you guys aren't one of thoes lame ass jerks who put a CGI of their "new concept" on youtube claming it can do everything from win the war, to burp the baby, and expect people to be impressed! besides this sucker is COOL!

  • Does it fire missiles inverted just for show or does that serve a function?

  • thats beautiful

    

  • Cyberdine/ Skynet thanks you, Aurora!

  • but will it blend ?

  • Mmm, looks like some baddies are gonna get some.

  • So the terminator HK is possible.

  • @stalkingalizee thats debatable but then, working at Safran on numerous UAVs, you of all people should know that you cannot simply determine a payload just by looking at it, wouldn't you agree?. This UAV is just over the size of an average sedan, making the full scale model almost three times the size.

  • @johnathanb123 I work at Safran, I have worked on more UAVs than you will ever see.

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