Boeing UCAV !?!


Message posted by Paul Reinman on March 30, 2000 at 09:03:45 EST:

Had anyone here heard of this vehicle before it showed up in this week's AvWeek? I hadn't.

I think the configuration looks very similiar to a B-2 with a constant width "fuselage". It has always suprised me that we haven't seen anything else fly with the configuration of the A-12. It wouldn't suprise me if someday we saw an A-12 configured UCAV with no control conventional control surfaces, only vectored thrust and internal weight shift for control. This would seem to me to be about as stealthy as possible. Or how about something with a planform described in some books as the "hopeless diamond"..

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Any comments?

Paul


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