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The A160 Turbine Hummingbird

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

The A160 Turbine (A160T) Hummingbird made by Boeing reached two key milestones one passing 100 hours in flight the second getting its transmission to change gears in flight. Boeing performed the tests under a $5 million bridge contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The A160T Hummingbird is 35 feet long with a 36-foot-diameter rotor and has reached speeds of up to 142 knots to date. What roles it will play in the United States Military are still unclear but with many attachments for unmanned vehicles already available this new Hummingbird could be very lethal.

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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System

Friday, December 19th, 2008

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System for the Navy made by Northrop Grumman The X-47B is to operated from the flight decks of US Navy aircraft carriers, able to carry out entire missions including air-to-air refuelling without any pilot input what so ever. And with its robot brain its able to conduct a mission using live weapons without needing to communicate with other pilots or supervisors from its aircraft carrier. The X-47B also has a much longer range than a normal carrier jet and uses Stealth technology.

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System is no doubt the best UAV made in 2008 and should prove to be a very worthy asset to the United States Navy.

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UAV air cleaners

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I can see a day soon when unmanned aerial vehicles will fly around the sky collecting the carbon out of it in order to help clean the air. And the unmanned aerial vehicles will run off batteries that recharge using solar power and flutter technology because as technology grows faster and smaller and more energy efficient systems are created we will soon be able to fly these type of machines in the air via GPS guided routes that just do nothing all day but clean the air we breathe.

There are probably dozens of different activities an unmanned machine could do all day to help mankind and the above idea is just the tip of the ice berg as to what machines can do to better mans life here on earth. If you have any ideas please leave them in the comments, because I would love to read them!

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