The future of warfare is robotic and recently both the United States and Russia have demonstrated their advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technologies.
The Russians have a new "Stealth" UAV, which they will most likely sell to the Chinese.
The Russian UAV uses mostly US Stealth Technologies, which was borrowed or stolen through corporate defense contractor espionage.
The Russians have been trying for quite some time to develop technologies to penetrate the US Airspace without detection.
A couple of years back they had flown bombers undetected to the outer borders of Canadian airspace to prove they could.
Why? Most likely to sell to the Chinese, who also want military superiority and so the arms race is alive and well.
The United States has also come a long way in up-scaling it's UAV technology and has announced the new Reaper UAV which is a Predator UAV on steroids with a 66 foot wingspan instead of a mere 41 feet.
It has a bomb payload of 4,000 lbs and a range in excess of 4 times that of the predator.
The future of Robot Wars will be in the sky, not only on the ground.
The Reaper is three-times faster and has a service ceiling of 50,000 feet as opposed to the 25,000 feet of the Predator Drone.
By the end of 2008 there will be 160 Predator aircraft with an undisclosed number of Reapers, although sources say they already have four and ten more on their way now.
The future of Air Wars and the future of Military aviation rests with the UAVs we are designing and building right now.
Think on it.
The Russians have a new "Stealth" UAV, which they will most likely sell to the Chinese.
The Russian UAV uses mostly US Stealth Technologies, which was borrowed or stolen through corporate defense contractor espionage.
The Russians have been trying for quite some time to develop technologies to penetrate the US Airspace without detection.
A couple of years back they had flown bombers undetected to the outer borders of Canadian airspace to prove they could.
Why? Most likely to sell to the Chinese, who also want military superiority and so the arms race is alive and well.
The United States has also come a long way in up-scaling it's UAV technology and has announced the new Reaper UAV which is a Predator UAV on steroids with a 66 foot wingspan instead of a mere 41 feet.
It has a bomb payload of 4,000 lbs and a range in excess of 4 times that of the predator.
The future of Robot Wars will be in the sky, not only on the ground.
The Reaper is three-times faster and has a service ceiling of 50,000 feet as opposed to the 25,000 feet of the Predator Drone.
By the end of 2008 there will be 160 Predator aircraft with an undisclosed number of Reapers, although sources say they already have four and ten more on their way now.
The future of Air Wars and the future of Military aviation rests with the UAVs we are designing and building right now.
Think on it.