Stealth Fighter the unmanned Taranis

MoD Taranis - unmanned aircraft
A prototype unmanned combat aircraft of the future, Taranis, has been unveiled by the MOD for the first time today.
Named after the Celtic god of thunder, the concept demonstrator will test the possibility of developing the first ever autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) that would ultimately be capable of precisely striking targets at long range, even in another continent.
Should such systems enter into service, they will at all times be under the control of highly trained military crews on the ground.

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[vortexZXR]

That reporter was really hot

[VigisKane]

@racassel

and heres us thinking we were friends,i think we should change sides and go to the Russians

[MrXray2011]

@TheLahness No... that was Taranis... that clip was on BBC News so why would they show an American UCAV and say that it was British- the media may lie but they would not get away with lying about this.

[TheLahness]

@MrXray2011 It wasn't Taranis, look it up, it is a US drone, it's name is something weird and has numbers in it.

[MrXray2011]

@TheLahness That was Taranis, not a US Drone. She will fly for the first time later this year in Western Australia.

[Muckydoggy1]

Anyway, if the MOD had to approve each frame of this video there's obviously something advanced they're hiding.

[Muckydoggy1]

Typical American comments being spewed out here. Just when a country exhibits capabilities that rival their own, they go on a mass slander spree to try and take down the other country by a notch or two.

[TheWrinklydon]

We have been looking at mock ups for over another year . Test FLIGHT should of been February 2011.What happened to that ! ! And where is the podject now

[TheLahness]

@PlaneAU You can find traces of nukes after they have detonated, and even after 30-40 years I think you would still want to know who detonated a nuke and killed hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of your people.

[PlaneAU]

@TheLahness you're not going to find any parts of a nuke, even if they did survive by the time you have cleared up the apocalyptic in 30, 40 years time, the world would have moved on.

[TheLahness]

@cadmus98 Well, nukes still leave behind traces of the bomb that held them, like blast shields etc, that can be tracked back to the country it was made in. Also, it is way too risky, all the nuclear countries have intelligence agencies that might find out about it, no country would risk that kind of destruction. And Pakistan is not a threat, at least not to Britain, Pakistan and Britain have been allies since the decommissioning of the Empire.

[cadmus98]

@TheLahness Stll, I wonder who Taranis would be useful against. I'm guessing a state that is harboring something or someone undesirable, has decent air defenses, and where you don't want full scale invasion. For example, Pakistan. There is already military hardware and personnel in place to deal with that, however, such as supersonic cruise missiles, intelligence agents, etc. Why the need for Taranis?