Posted on 06/18/2010 8:29:30 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
India joins bat-wing large UAV club
By
Stephen Trimble
on June 18, 2010 12:20 PM
India aerospace journalist Shiv Aroor's LiveFist blog today brings us the first conceptual renderings of AURA, the stealth UCAV project that India apparently decided to leak into the public domain a few weeks ago.
India's is part of a growing global craze for bat-wing-shaped UAVs. Consider the following list of acknowledged, bat-wing UCAV projects in development across the world:
* BAE Systems Taranis
* Boeing Phantom Ray
* Dassault Neuron
* Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel
* Mikoyan Skat
* Northrop Grumman X-47B
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the last are the omissions. Where is China? What about Israel? Stay tuned ...
Yeah. Hardly ever seen or used before.
Is it armed with curry pods?
I suppose we owe you 50c for that one then?
put the money in the bucket
I've seen that design or similar used on kites for many years,,,
OK. I’ll bite. What’s a curry pod?
I have owned and flown kites just like that one, for many years. Even the kite industry did not pioneer that particular shape.
The Germans did in the 1940’s.
The Germans did in the 1940’s.
Gertrude and her husband Francis Rogallo, a NASA engineer, invented the Rogallo Wing in 1948.
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