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THE VULTURE AIRCRAFT VIDEO- A NEW ‘SPY IN THE SKY’
-COULD IT ALSO BE USED FOR ‘CIVILIAN SPYING/CONTROL’?-
Edited/Summarized by ‘Sweeps’ Fox
It’s a new high tech concept plane which cruises at an altitude…to 90,000 feet or, 10 miles above the average jetliner…can stay aloft for 5 years on solar power and silently monitors objects/world areas which effect U.S. security.
The Pentagon definitely wants it to be the Vulture aircraft…with its planned long-long-long-range unmanned surveillance and communication aircraft.
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OK…what's got a 500-foot wingspan, flies at 90,000 feet and stays up in the air for five years without ever touching the ground? Maybe more ‘Spying’ on civilian activities too? No doubt folks…if that’s what ‘They’ want!!
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency last week awarded contracts to Manassas, Va.-based Aurora Flight Services and top defense contractors Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop working prototypes of the Vulture, according to the aerospace news service Flight.
What the Pentagon wants is essentially a maneuverable satellite replacement: a fixed-wing, heavier-than-air craft that's high enough to "see" large swaths of the Earth at once, but one that can also reposition itself to circle over new areas of interest, something satellites in fixed orbits can't do.
It has to be able carry a 1,000-pound payload, battle stratospheric winds, generate a continuous 5 kilowatts of electricity…and it can't use nuclear power to do so.
‘We want to completely change the paradigm of how we think of aircraft’. Vulture project manager Daniel Newman tells Flight. ‘We would no longer define an aircraft by the launch, recover, maintain, launch cycle’.
