标题: Europe Wants to Catch up With US, Israel on Combat Drones [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-16-2014 13:51 标题: Europe Wants to Catch up With US, Israel on Combat Drones 本帖最后由 choi 于 7-16-2014 16:50 编辑
Tim Bowler, Farnborough: Europe's Combat Drone Challenge. BBC, July 15, 2014. www.bbc.com/news/business-28294239
(“Last year, even France opted to buy US Reaper drones as a money-saving measure. Individually, Europe's nations are too small to be an effective market for combat drones. Only if they can develop a multinational drone would such a system be economical”)
My comment:
(a) This report is inane. Skim it and that is enough.
(b) “Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, is easily BAE Systems' spookiest-looking aircraft.”
(i) Taranis
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranis
(section 1 Etymology)
(ii) The noun Taranis itself is Latin, “from the Celtic.” Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(c) “Sleek, with swept-back wings, the grey, wedge-shaped Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV), or drone, is ‘the most advanced aircraft ever produced in the UK,’ says the firm.”
Compare
(i) variable-sweep wing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-sweep_wing
with
(ii) swept wing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swept_wing