PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Unmanned drones likely to take over Nimrod spy duties
Old 10th December 2012 | 14:22
  #48 (permalink)  
Pontius Navigator
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
20 Anniversary
 
Joined: Dec 2002
: Military (Retired)
Posts: 16,700
Likes: 54
From: Lincolnshire
DD, RP touched on part of it so I shall expand. Time late at datum, drawing at the wrong end of a field a high speed dash at 400k came in very handy. Covert radar search, did it still exist, revisit times meant you needed to balance a search speed against endurance.

Will there be separate single mission type UAV? The high altitude one for sowing and monitoring a field with perhaps an additional surface surveillance capability; one for low level weapons delivery and a low altitude surveillance capability?

Maybe a return to an Ikara type system where the torpedo can be rocket launched from altitude - a second Ford Transit van?
Pontius Navigator is offline  
Reply