Aquajet and the new way to make drones, what is capable even for nuclear strike

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BewQePKl8PV/

Above is the link for one story in Instagram. It is a story of the underwater scooter, what looks like Lockheed MQM-105 "Aquila” drone. The name of this thing is an Aquajet, and it could be equipped with GPS- or gyroscope systems, what allows it to drive to target automatically.  This story gave me an idea, that the electric-powered drones can also use as the miniature submarines, what can make many missions under water. The ”Aquilas” uses propellers to move in the air, and those same things can also use to move the drone underwater. They can be used as the recon missions, but they can also track other missiles to the target. So those miniature recon planes would be very effective in many missions.



And of course, ”Aquilas” can equip with warheads. So they can use as the missiles. If ”Aquilas” would have RTG (Radio Thermal Generator) it can fly very long time, and that miniature drone can also use for strategic intelligence missions. Because it flying time would be extremely long, it can hang near some target like FSB:s headquarters, and record the sounds from that house by using laser microphones. And it could also drop the brand new bug-sized recon robots, what are CIA:s new weapon in the intelligence world.

Lockheed MQM-105 "Aquila"
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The idea of that kind of hybrid aircraft is very old, and in 1930’s the Soviet Union planned to make the ”flying submarine” in the form of SB-2 bomber. The purpose of the aircraft, what has the capacity to submerge is that thing can slip underwater in the target, and then fly away after the strike. The B-2 had planned to have that capacity, but it was probably not accomplished. There is a rumor that some navies are testing midget submarines, what is about the jet fighter size vessels, what are equipped with torpedos or missiles. And NAVY-SEAL’s UDV:s Underwater Delivery Vehicles can equip with torpedos, Maverick and Harpoon missiles. That equipment would installed at the outer side of those vehicles. The torpedo would be behind the missile, and it could patrol at the seas without any notice about it.


There is also believed that the Trident or Tomahawk missiles were installed in very large torpedoes. Those torpedoes or very long enduring drones would patrol at the ocean by using the RTG-generators for produce the electric power for its motors, and when the order was given, those very small drones would rise their nose upwards and then the missiles motors would state. This is the new way of military technology, and the meaning of those small unmanned drones is to fill the US Trident fleet, and serve as the backup vehicles if the large submarines would be destroyed.

Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_MQM-105_Aquila

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Delivery_Vehicle

Flying submarine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCqzvfPi5Kw

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BewQePKl8PV/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_MQM-105_Aquila

Facebook's solar powered aircraft.

Facebook's Aquila

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Solar powered aircraft might be replaced satellites in many missions. They have the capacity to fly at very high altitudes because their engines don't need oxygen. And because they don’t need fuel, those drones can stay in the air even years. Those drones have also the capacity to fly in other planes atmosphere and that’s why they are interested in NASA. Solar power drones can be sent to Venus atmosphere to investigate that planet. But in other planet mission what will head to Jupiter and Saturn, there is a nuclear power needed because in that distance the sunlight won’t have enough energy for produce electricity for those probes.


Also, those drones have great capacity in long endurance surveillance missions, where they must fly around same point even years without brakes. And solar power is the more ecological way to produce electric power than RTGs (Radio Thermal Generators), what are using high radioactive isotopes to produce electric power.


To replace example Predator UAV:s combustion engine with RTG is very easy. There must only connect an electric motor cesium battery, and the result is a UAV, what can operate even years. Those drones can come day fly to the Jupiter, Saturn and Titan's atmosphere. Their sunlight is so weak, that produce an electricity is not suitable for solar panels.


When we are thinking of the next generation green aviation, we must realize, that all kind of airplanes are not suitable for all missions, and all kind of airplanes have their own weaknesses. The problem with ultra-fast airplanes is that they spend lots of fuel, and that’s why those aircraft are not suitable for long enduring operations.


Facebooks’s next-generation solar-powered “Aquila” is an attempt to replace the communication satellites with solar powered airplanes, what can fly at extreme altitudes. Those airplanes capacity is very effective because if those robot airplanes system will be malfunctioning, the system can return to base for service and repairings. Those solar powered aircraft fly around the same point and offers an enhanced communication capacity to the people who need that. But there is one little problem with those airplanes.


Their solar power systems don't get enough sunlight at polar areas, where is the most need those systems. That kind of systems must have another kind of propulsion system in that kind of system. If we will use imagination, the solution might be ultra powerful radio waves, what induces the electric power to that system, when auxiliary combustion engines are not needed. Those solar powered airplanes might have used in surveillance role, where those planes fly across the border area even months without brakes.


That kind of airplanes can be equipped with optical sensors, what allows those operators to surveillance all areas. But solar-powered drones have one capacity, what other planes won’t have. They might be built by STEALTH materials and they are invincible in radar infrared and even for a human eye. So those planes can fly across the battlefield and show targets to other planes. Solar power airplanes can fly extremely high altitudes. They can fly above all other planes and show targets to attack aircraft and use laser microphones and electronic equipment to eavesdrop to enemy command sites.