Taranis

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July 13, 2010 at 10:52 am #1049398
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Named Taranis, after the Celtic god of thunder, the £142.5 million prototype has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

Dubbed the “pinnacle” of British engineering and aeronautical design, it is the size of a light aircraft and has been equipped with advanced stealth technology making it virtually undetectable.

Almost invisible to ground radar, it is designed to travel at high jet speeds and cover massive distances between continents.

The plane is built to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance on enemy territory using onboard sensors.

And it has been designed to carry a cache of weapons – including bombs and missiles – giving it a potential long-range strike capability. It can be controlled from anywhere in the world with satellite communications.

£142.5m combat aircraft unveiled – Yahoo! News UK

mental! :crazy:
July 13, 2010 at 10:55 am #1227602
1984
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but will it fit in my garage…
July 13, 2010 at 12:37 pm #1227601
joshd96320
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bloody hell :O
July 13, 2010 at 1:00 pm #1227598
GiantMidget
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This looks phat! Although I do see it as a stepping stone to our own doom.

The machines will get us eventually. :/
July 13, 2010 at 1:35 pm #1227596
process
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skynets coming!
July 13, 2010 at 1:44 pm #1227597
process
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oh shit, its already here! :crazy:

British Skynet satellite launched

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | British Skynet satellite launched

“Skynet is a family of military satellites, now operated by Paradigm Secure Communications on behalf of the UK Ministry of Defence, which provide strategic communication services to the three branches of the British Armed Forces and to NATO forces engaged on coalition tasks.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

im scared! :hopeless:
July 13, 2010 at 4:53 pm #1227595
General Lighting
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having worked for in the British high-tech industries, behind all the flash technology its more like Wallace and Gromit. the UK Skynet comms system is older than me, and is more like a better encrypted version of Airwave but with the repeaters up in the sky rather than on the ground…

What they have here is a giant radio controlled plane. Its a cool toy but debatable whether £142.5million of taxpayers money is justifiable – its a year late, £20 million over budget and they still haven’t even flown the bloody thing yet!
July 14, 2010 at 4:03 pm #1227599
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@process 391165 wrote:

Almost invisible to ground radar, it is designed to travel at high jet speeds and cover massive distances between continents.

£142.5m combat aircraft unveiled – Yahoo! News UK

mental! :crazy:

But not to passive infrared scanners NOTHING IS! Mwhahahahahah!

British Army – Artillery – Air Defence Alerting Device (ADAD) – Armed Forces – a6a15
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