Originally appeared at ZeroHedge
About two years after we told readers the pilotless “Loyal Wingman” drone was being developed in Australia, the military unmanned aerial vehicle that uses artificial intelligence to attack enemy targets has conducted its first test flight, according to ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
Boeing developed the Loyal Wingman in partnership with the Defence Department and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). It’s the first time in more than five decades a military plane has been designed and manufactured in Australia.
The RAAF wants the Loyal Wingman to fly alongside high-value assets such as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, Boeing P-8 Poseidon, and Boeing E-7 Wedgetail.
Designed by Boeing Phantom Works in Brisbane, the largest Boeing development center outside the US, the stealth drone has a nautical mile range of 3,704 km (approximately 2,300 miles). The fighter-like jet is 11.6 meters long and will be embedded with a host of electronic warfare sensors. As far as the type of weapons the drone will carry, well, that remains classified.
The drone’s artificial intelligence will allow it to fly independently to support manned aircraft while maintaining a safe distance between other aircraft.
Australia plans to spend $89 million to acquire three more Loyal Wingman later this year.
“It is a milestone for Australia, for the Boeing Company, and for the Royal Australian Air Force,” said President of Boeing Australia, Dr. Brendan Nelson.
A boost for our industry team and Australian sovereign capability as we partner with @AusAirForce to co-develop 3 more #LoyalWingman to advance the aircraft's capabilities.
Thanks @DeptDefence for your commitment to growing Aussie innovation!
Release: https://t.co/Tht7saqd45 pic.twitter.com/poV0AQO89d
— Boeing Australia (@BoeingAustralia) March 2, 2021
… and here’s the video of the first-ever test flight of the stealth drone.
Watch the first ever #LoyalWingman flight.
“A year ago this was a concept – now it’s a reality – it’s amazing to imagine and then create a new uncrewed aerial capability with our partner @BoeingAustralia. Designed & made right here in Australia!” AVM Cath Roberts. #AusAirForce pic.twitter.com/f5fUqRgpOC— Royal Australian Air Force (@AusAirForce) March 2, 2021
The drone’s development comes as a great power competition between the US and China will continue to flourish in the 2020s. Both countries are fighting for global dominance and have been quickly modernizing their respective militaries for potential conflict in the Pacific, which is not that far away from Australia.
I bet this Commonwealth-Project is goin’ to be just as Succesful as the Ugly Duckling F-35 Joint Strike Loser…
https://sputniknews.com/military/202103051082267606-us-house-armed-services-chair-wants-budget-cuts-to-rat-hole-f-35-fighter-program/
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We don’t fuck ass about here when it comes to engineering,infact this is a 6th gen jet powered strike fighter that can arm as well,now when it comes to bang for buck we leave usa and europeans in the shade (period)
Germans are still miles above you.
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dude….please…..number 1 you ain’t fawkin german, and number 2 this HO-229 was tested recently and it was not stealthy at all. Yous a dumb uneducated cvnt. Get the Fukk outta here……
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I just hooked me a Great White Shark…hehehehe…..
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You still copy the Germans . . .
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I hope there is a fridge on board for the lager, as I am told that the Loyal Wing Man needs booze as well.
Whilst I have my Woke hat on, I am outraged that typical white sons of slave owners have not considered the LGBTQ community, and disregarded all the Loyal Wing Women, especially the Trans Gender Wing community.
I also demand that an African American version is also constructed with 100% African American input.
The abject racism of artificial intelligence must be cancelled immediately, HH. :)
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Whats with all this neo nazi paraphernalia? This is not a nazi forum…..you got that?
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you lost muddafukka? What do you think South Front is? Storm Front?
The Boeing, that of the 777 Max? the one that should have already failed for quite some time? a walking dead shouldn’t design anything, but the American one is such a bankruptcy system that the most corrupt are also the most rewarded, if the mythical free market existed, the Yankees would not have an aviation industry yet, instead as usual they charge costs to their vassals, as well as to their citizens, with the hope that those flying objects do not fall on someone’s head.
Russia’s ‘Hunter’ Is Unlike Anything in America’s Arsenal https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a33548209/russia-hunter-combat-drone/ Russia’s ‘Hunter drone’ expected to be in service by 2024 https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/the-first-joint-flight-of-a-sukhoi-s-70-okhotnik-heavy-news-photo-1596841938.jpg?resize=768:* https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/the-first-joint-flight-of-a-sukhoi-s-70-okhotnik-heavy-news-photo-1596841938.jpg?resize=768:* grom https://www.aerotime.aero/upload/files/439×312/mosquito_loyal_wingman_crop.jpg https://www.aerotime.aero/upload/files/grom_drone.jpg
You Allies all still copy the Germans . . . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/134566b9f23a88b15990e5271fc2ac84f91b1b6a71b22c513d719985dec02a72.jpg
Fkn well don’t,it took only 3 years to develop,no wonder/askenazi/cia got it in for boeing,CIA/lowlife rippoff merchants can’t take to the fact 6th gen stealth fighters are reality now,hence 100% designed and built by Boeing/australia and Raaf!
Germanys behind times,how many drones superior soviet 50s tech knocked german drones off yugoslavia back then.also proves the soviet.russians with the superior dna yet even us convicts are smart enough to not entrust in nazi theft let alone rely on bullish time frames eu-epp corporations fail to delivered!
3 YEARS,and developments to date has not missed a beat,consider the advantage CIA/LOCKHEED MARTIN HAVE IT IN FOR BOEING,Raaf best stick to boeing: That useless french submarine project hopefully goes to the distbin of history, many tens of billions are far better spent upgrading our shipyards and develop our (collins class) and future nuclear subs,with the same swedish (dna)company There are more calls to cancel the contract for obvious reasons(national securty) Money as you know is the most important aspect,to bring efficiency in all spheres best bang for buck + timely manner,fits the bill,not selow unelect foriegn policys:
You fail to acknowledge russians achieved what usa with their soo superior nazi henchmen can achieve,albiet under cias fake moon landings more cia crumbs, yet how it it todays,the better scientists are obviously evident more than ever before in history,this is why the great pretenders of advanced civilisations will be exposed for the fake phoney and fraudlent mob they truly are,gods the witness!
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Cute toy drone…
Cheap as chips,compared to the failed f35 touch screen useless junk! Had no choice really.
You still copy the Germans . . . ha ha ha . . .
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Arguably germans,soviets or both?
You Allies stole everything you have from Germany, including rockets . . . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/65216515dadb4fc416595f72935c07044c78d1ef440a2a1597333785d1ffdcac.png
Speaking of cias
spot on………and dont forget the nuclear bombs stolen from germany…..(uranium bomb).little boy was 100% german made and stolen in whole….the US failed to bring their plutonium bomb , fat man, to critical detonation due to their failure in electrionics/detonation procedures………
check the timetable of events…….COincidence??
8 may 1945
july 16 1945
august 6 1945
august 9 1945
funny what a coincidence, that the US nuclear program got a run AFTER the invasion and occupation of germany………
just a coincidence…gggg
Nah! Germans are those who stealing everything! Just kidding. http://ram-home.com/ram-old/sk-9.html
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O yeah! Look at Swedish Carl Gustafs Model 1921/1924 https://fws-files.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/website/auctions/items/large/122492_1.jpg
Nonsense. AK and StG 44 are totally different designs, M-16 is more similar to StG44 than AK. “Oh, but they both have barrels ya know!” You can show Avtomat Fedorova from 1916. and claim StG44 copied it (Germans actually copied soviets rifles not vice versa).
Bottom one looks like an SKS, you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
Yes, its hard to imagine that the German flying wing was actually in action over the D Day beaches in 1944. That’s 77 years ago, this coming June.
THe 2nd Horten prototype didn’t fly until spring ’45, just for a few test flights before crashing, and being destroyed.
it flew once on its test flight……..don’t you know?
It still flew in 1944 on a combat mission. This was a 1st.
The Luftwaffe also successfully tested in combat a TV guided missile in combat that was controlled by a Dornier, I think. The flight was in the Italian sector ,if my memory is correct.
yes, but those are all history of very early examples of missile technology. The Fritz X and the V-1/ V-2 etc….. This Ho-229 was no stealth craft. It was a flying wing concept. That is all. Yes the Nazi’s were pioneers, true……but so what? Now many other nations are pioneers too. Big deal no……changes nothing.
Pindos had Northrop’s flying wing developments beginning with in the late ’20s, in parallel with Horten brothers’ developments in Germany. The russkies had Cheranovskii’s flying wing series of gliders, and planes, starting in the mid ’20. There were other pioneers that contributed even earlier to the concept.
PC1400X was a remotely controlled APHE gliding bomb. It was employed by a group of Fliegende Bleistifte to sink the battleship Roma, and heavily damage Italia, after the Makaronifresser signed the armistice. It was also used against allied ships in the Mediterranean theatre.
Women can do the same thing as men, and men can be like women. Our 5 star invisible US fighter drone can hit any target on the planet that threaten our way of living without bringing our minority values in jeopardy.
Lol.
odd looking dildo–anglos need rough sex