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This has nothing to do with aircraft. Actually, yes, the article explicitly mentions the possibility of powering unmanned aerial vehicles.
by goodcanadian 6y ago
This has nothing to do with aircraft.
Actually, yes, the article explicitly mentions the possibility of powering unmanned aerial vehicles.
- sandworm101 6y ago>> the article explicitly mentions Ya. The public report on the super-secret space plane touts that it is studying far-off green energy solutions when those same technologies have much more immediate military effects. It's like the USAF saying that it is studying lasers in order to build better CD players. Everyone takes such statements with a grain of salt. Nobody thinks that we are getting the full story behind these experiments and we chuckle a bit at the poor junior officer instructed to "be creative" with descriptions in public statements.
- goodcanadian 6y agoI didn't say anything about green energy, and while the grandparent comment did, I don't think it was implied that it was the motivation of the experiment. Powering military drones for indefinite dwell time is a very plausible use case among many listed in the article.
- BurningFrog 6y agoIt mentions "long-endurance unmanned aircraft", which I assume use orders of magnitude less power than most aircraft.