UAV / UCAV - Drohnen

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Eine schöne Auflistung von 10 Drohnen Projekte die man in Auge haben sollte. Am interessantesten erscheint mir persönlich dabei die Raytheon Coyote, dazu:

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…The Coyote has had a lot of corporate owners in its roughly decade-long existence. The small unmanned air system was developed by Tucson-based Advanced Ceramics Research along with the Manta and the Silver Fox. BAE Systems acquired the company in 2009. In February, Raytheon acquired the company from BAE. The Coyote was designed with a unique requirement to be launched from a standard sonobuoy tube. It could then be launched from a Lockheed P-3 Orion or Lockheed/Sikorsky MH-60 and feed surveillance information back to the mothership. Much like a sonobuoy, it would be discarded at the end of a roughly 1h mission. So far, the US Navy has not picked up the Coyote for its anti-submarine warfare fleet, but it is being used by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's P-3 fleet. It is now the focus of an Office of Naval Research programme seeking to demonstrate a swarming surveillance concept by launching 30 Coyotes at the same time from a ship-based tube launching system….