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A prototype experiences them of an operated by remote control hunting, the X-45, planned the USA soldiers has completed with succeeding its first test of flight. The test is made in order to verify the estate and the system capacity of remote control of the jet. If completely developed, the plan of the X-45 will concur with the pilot to comfortably command from the own base the aircraft, engaging also an aerial combat against other enemy aircrafts. The colonel Michael Leahy, the responsible of the program of development of the plan realized from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has said: "the aircraft without pilot, Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV), could be employed for extremely dangerous missions, like, as an example, the destruction of the antiaircraft batteries". But the jet operated by remote control remarkable cost reduction of the aerial missions will guarantee also one. While the production process can very make account on the simulations the computer, then to be able not to be involved a pilot reduces very many equipment expenses. The X-45 costs the half of an aerial normal school, approximately 15 million dollars. A successive version of the prototype, the X-45B then will be planned for the boarding of crews. The final prototype will weigh approximately 3600 kilograms and will have a payload of equal armament to 1400 kilograms. The X-45 is along 8,2 meters, less of the normal aircrafts and its motor more or less in place of the pilot is accommodated. During the flight test the airplane has caught up one the maximum speed of 361 km/h (195 nodes) and an altitude of 2286 meters.
Category: Aeronautical
Type: Glossaries and Dictionaries
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