BAE Mantis drone doing flight tests in Australia
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BAE Mantis drone doing flight tests in Australia
The british Mantis twin-turboprop-UAV has started flight tests at Woomera.
Picture:
BAE Mantis im Flugtest - FLUG REVUE
Picture:
BAE Mantis im Flugtest - FLUG REVUE
Hmmmm.....
With the stunning success of introducing Nimrod 2000 and EuropHoon into service on time and on budget
, why do I feel some concern at the prospect of 't Bungling Baron Waste o' Space building an unmanned aircraft?
With the stunning success of introducing Nimrod 2000 and EuropHoon into service on time and on budget
, why do I feel some concern at the prospect of 't Bungling Baron Waste o' Space building an unmanned aircraft?
Sithee by 'eck, 't mantis.exe has encounterred a problem, tha' knows and needs terr close. Sorry for 't inconvenience, tarrah
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At Krautland they are phasing out electronic intelligence gathering Atlantics and plan to use unmanned Eurohawk drones instead.
Mantis has no orders so far AFAIK but was developed and paid for by BAE Systems.
Mantis has no orders so far AFAIK but was developed and paid for by BAE Systems.
If your German language skills are not quite up to reading the Flug Revue, try this link (Flight International article on the Mantis first flights).
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Defence Industrial Strategy
The very reasonable question "why do we pay BAE Sys to produce system X, when we could just buy system Y off the shelf" can normally be answered by reference to this http://www.mod.uk/nr/rdonlyres/f530e..._wp_cm6697.pdf
Use a PDF search to count the number of times BAE Sys are mentioned by name (105 excluding the glossary).
What does this tell us?
Sun Who.
Use a PDF search to count the number of times BAE Sys are mentioned by name (105 excluding the glossary).
What does this tell us?
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"Sithee by 'eck, 't mantis.exe has encounterred a problem, tha' knows and needs terr close. Sorry for 't inconvenience, tarrah"
That had me in stitches, thanks Beags!!!! After working closely with BWos in the recent past at a large centre of "flt test excellence"........well I'll say no more! Man-tis looks no less impressive in the flesh either......
That had me in stitches, thanks Beags!!!! After working closely with BWos in the recent past at a large centre of "flt test excellence"........well I'll say no more! Man-tis looks no less impressive in the flesh either......
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I believe the chopper you refer to is more than likely from middle england/south east and is obviously struggling to find his/her own identity.
I fear for their safety once he/she realises they have more in common with northern France than anything you could consider English.
I fear for their safety once he/she realises they have more in common with northern France than anything you could consider English.
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Sun Who,
Indeed, the "BAES, AW & BVT must remain profitable at all costs irrespective of how poor their performance" document. And we wonder why they can - esp. BAES - be a little overbearing, or even, dare we mention it, "Arrogant"!?!
it would be most interesting to see how long the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) would last if when "buying British" was not demonstrable value-for-money, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, (nee BURR
, nee DTI 
) had to pay the difference between the BAES / AW / BVT costs and those of the preferred / lowest cost bidder who many or may not decide to build the equipment in the UK... 
Let's hope the damn thing gets re-written in concert with SDR 2010 and focusses on value for the front line rather more than in protecting major international companies that happen to operate in the UK from their own incompetence and ineptitude. (See NAO Major Project Reports, passim).
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Indeed, the "BAES, AW & BVT must remain profitable at all costs irrespective of how poor their performance" document. And we wonder why they can - esp. BAES - be a little overbearing, or even, dare we mention it, "Arrogant"!?!
it would be most interesting to see how long the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) would last if when "buying British" was not demonstrable value-for-money, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, (nee BURR
, nee DTI ) had to pay the difference between the BAES / AW / BVT costs and those of the preferred / lowest cost bidder who many or may not decide to build the equipment in the UK... Let's hope the damn thing gets re-written in concert with SDR 2010 and focusses on value for the front line rather more than in protecting major international companies that happen to operate in the UK from their own incompetence and ineptitude. (See NAO Major Project Reports, passim).
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It seems that "Buy British" is a self defeating policy. Could we move towards a "Buy Effective" policy... It might help and it might save one or two lives along the way.
But let's not loose sight of the "big picture"... It's not all "insurgent warfare" - we need to be able to fight in any scenario.
But let's not loose sight of the "big picture"... It's not all "insurgent warfare" - we need to be able to fight in any scenario.
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If your German language skills are not quite up to reading the Flug Revue, try this link (Flight International article on the Mantis first flights).
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Looks like there is space for a pilot upgrade/downgrade option.
.... and they have raided the parts bin. I'm sure that tail looks like it has come off something else.
.... and they have raided the parts bin. I'm sure that tail looks like it has come off something else.