Why The RAF's Next Drone Is At The Cutting Edge
Why The RAF's Next Drone Is At The Cutting Edge
The SkyGuardian is a pre-production example of the UK’s new Protector aircraft.
It is the world’s most advanced remotely piloted aircraft – but what can it do?
We take a closer look!
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some many words to say so little
Ahhhha yes, but is it ‘woke’?
Pollution monitoring 🤣😂🤣😂
Unfortunately it’s pretty easy to shoot down buy a peer adversary, probably this is the reason why they cut back the order on them.
Nice hardware but ,will,the RAF get any smaller due to unmaned stuff
Nasty parts of the world ? Tower hamlets ?
Don’t mind me, I’m just waiting for the people who don’t understand RPAS to start moaning in the comments
"This aircraft will be able to fly!" What a line
just say best in uk you actually don’t know what other nations might be having
Protector. Mkay lol. At least the Americans give them appropriate names for what they do. POLLUTION MONITORING HABAHAVGAHAHHA
Less hotel bills for the MOD.
It s made by American firm; General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, who also make the Reaper (MQ-9A), Avenger and Grey Eagle.
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The Protector is the UK / RAF name for their new SkyGuardian / SeaGuardian (MQ-9B) – an updated version to the Reaper. Many nations are will be buying this new toy.
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I find it funny the naming of these machine has moved on or modernized with the times; from Reaper or Predator … to Guardian or Protector … what next; Angel or Savior/Saviour
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God Bless
1) monitor air pollution in London
2) send a Hellfire to the building of those making money of it – or not taking steps to avoid it switching to electric cars.
16 aircraft will be enough. For a serious war, it’s almost purely symbolic.
The video would have been a lot quicker, if the cake eater could actually string sentences along without going mmmm errrmmmmm all of the time.
Also we have cut their numbers again from 20 to 16… we keep cutting citing cutting , our Millitary is getting far too small.
The Skyguardian isn’t the best. The RQ180 "White bat" is. Granted most of it is classified. Heck the RQ170 is better other then endurance. The US won’t sell these to other nations though as they have an RCS similar to the F22.
"The RQ-180 is believed to be about the size of the Global Hawk, which weighs 32,250 lb (14,630 kg), and have similar capabilities of endurance (24 hours) and range (12,000 nmi (14,000 mi; 22,000 km)). This is much more than the RQ-170’s endurance of 5–6 hours. It has superior all-aspect, broadband radar cross-section reduction features compared to previous stealth aircraft such as the F-117 Nighthawk, F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.
The RQ-180 is believed to have a cranked-kite layout like the X-47B, but with a much longer wingspan, perhaps as much as 130 ft (40 m). Northrop Grumman claims the wing is more scalable and adaptable than the B-2 Spirit’s flying wing shape"
"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”
(1 Samuel 15:3)
When they start coming to the end of their usefulness will the MOD flog them cheap to Amazon if they are so adaptable. Then again think of the money the MOD are saving on zobs!… they can get a job at Ryanair now…. win win!!
Great for sending hellfires up the asses of terrorists and innocent civilians alike.
Wigston a fool. Whatever figure they give for it’s life time, assume half of that gets used max. And take away about 30% of the original order amount while you’re at it
I thought they could fly longer than a day and half.and can they attach external fuel tanks on a couple of the hard points for an even better duration
Looks like Reaper Drone
Can it spot dinghies in the Channel ?
Can it see migrants in small boats…
No one else can
Why does he sound like Matt Hancock rather than a military commander?
Belgian Army also bought 2 planes and groundstation in 2018. Cooperation with British forces about Interoperability is one of the ames
Bet the ground crew love these aircraft. No stroppy or arrogant pilots to deal with at see off.
We have not ordered the maritime patrol radar featured here, its rather misleading
Why do they all have a pseudo "cockpit" ?
Lol
It’s nice to see others of my gender being represented in the airforce
protecting us from what exactly, channel invasion !?
Hmm sure sounds like it will only be used for Emergencies and Pollution monitoring
Why did he have to bring up climate stuff, it just makes it all look so woke😮
That’s great and all, but what exactly does “more difficult counter-terrorism missions” mean in practice? Are we talking about US style drone strikes i.e extra-judicial killings on a distant civilian population living in a country we are not technically at war with? What UK legislation exists to allow this? What are the legal and parliamentary oversights? The problem is once you start using such a quick, easy, no risk to yourself weapon system that there is no incentive to ever stop.
Where were they made ??
wers a uk built alternative?
Oddly enough, I was tracking the first drone I’ve ever seen on my tracking app just under a month ago over the UK, from near Nottingham to down South past Taunten and over the English Chennel just East of Plymouth. where it circled for a good while, before heading back up North, I wonder if it was this thing? 🤔
My only concern is that it’s being built by Cyberdyne Systems and the AI is Skynet
We need these now monitoring the English Channel!