My understanding of this is that DARPA is basically throwing money at any company which can promise to supply small UAVs in quantity. Unique designs are welcome, but this is really about numbers and cost. What is baffling is that more resources are not being put into X-65, which actually does represent a revolutionary capability. Given that China has a similar program to exploit photomagnetic propulsion, you'd think this is an area where they'd want to remain competitive. LED lights, polarity uniforming layers, glass nanospheres and copper plates are fundamentally easier for us to make than induction motors and rotors and ultimately offer greater top speeds and efficiencies, particularly in rarefied air. Self-refueling hypersonic missiles are looking more practical provided the ingredient of integument heating prevention sufficient to maintain structural integrity. I can see that DARPA is investigating the practicality of both of my proposed methods (not proposed by me directly but proposed by a thief) of preventing integument heating, but that it's not a priority. EM railgun was the perfect booster mechanism for self-refueling hypersonics (powered by high-speed electrical hydrolysis) but the Navy shelved that program entirely. Once you have a missile moving at faster than about Mach 2.5, the water vapor in the air gives you enough energy to keep moving given its hydrogen content. The real issue is preventing integument heating. There are two key things you have to do. The first is to prevent the formation of the type of acoustic wave in the skin which tends to give rise to heating (the friction generates heat acoustically, not through actual scraping as many believe) and you do this through pulsed acceleration which causes air to strike the skin in a great many sheets rather than like raindrops. The second thing you have to do is to ensure the unidirectional flow of acoustic energy and this is done through vacuum vacancies configured literally like Tesla valves in the integument. The entire skin then acts as a resonator which ensures that acoustic energy only passes through the skin once rather than echoing. With these three technologies, you can put something into the air that moves at over Mach 5 and keeps moving for at least 24 hours and can essentially loiter.

これは日本も採用した方がいい。艦載ISRアセットとしてかなりの可能性を感じる。

So great design

another for the fkin military and not for civilians

This is precisely what the military needs. Or small FBO’s This needs to replace the Osprey. The thing is, they need better turbo props, powerplants, and ability to carry a lot of weight. Imagine this essentially like a DC9 or bigger, but it can land on an aircraft carrier while being lighter and having better armor

The best drone design I've seen so far. Amazing.

super impression congratulations. This how the V22 should work.

All these damn weapons will be used against us

着陸については、どうなの? 何の為の離陸+飛行なの? 目的とした着陸点は? ???

who needs an infantry, apc & ifv when these little birds which don’t need a runway can do the job faster w/o troop casualties?

Are drones are better at killing... 7 out of 10 arse-holes confrimed.

these birds can replace the infantry.

awesome aircraft, Does it come in any other colour.

Американська розробка kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXKUdoGerbGkitEsi=VsaK0vnsEGm-JiZC

I wonder how this scales up, to say carry passengers and shorten runways...

I love this configuration so much! I know it’s all registered and all that but can I copy the configuration for my own project?

Это все про раскручивание военных на бабло , это не для массового производства. Как показала практика , военные это закажут , контора будет им это делать ГОДАМИ , а потом это все сгниет на складах БЕЗ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ! Потому что чтобы применять надо иметь яйца , но не военным , а их ссыкливым политикам.

wow. that's upsettingly dope.

It looks stable. Any plans for a hoverbike?

So how much

Imagine Being able to press a buton and it will track down where someone lives

Fascinating swing wing design. Compact, efficient as a plane, no landing gear (problems). If that can be made in scale... "Bye bye helicopters" 🖐 (say that as a former pilot)

pretty cool :) I appreciate its design of the wings following the engines, thats a pretty smart design. keep it up :)

Kalo di perbesar untuk kepentingan sosial bisa

Imagine how many of these things crashed before the succesful flight.

"change the world for the better" Translation: line our pockets with rich military contracts.

Play your cards right PteroDynamics, maybe this is what the next gen C130 will look like. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGi9nJJ-rtqAr7csi=hdjr4xi6jgHhYsLv&t=482

With 4 propellers, it'll kill Marines twice as fast as the Osprey.

Fucking amazing.

That’s dum P51 better

Look up the Boeing X-50 Dragonfly. I was there for the tests at Yuma Proving Grounds. It didn't work.

that blue electric tape

2 seater please AK

i love how you put "VTOL killerdrone" and "we believe to change the world for the better" in one sentence!! bravo!

Pizza Pizza

no more long airport runways.... just landing spots, and small airports on many small towns...

I wonder if it can land on 3 motors

all that amazing innovation and technical design and the first real idea you get for it's development and intended use is military.. this thing will probably kill ppl GGs

Tremendo dron con una capacidad de combinación de helicópteros a aeronaves muy buenas

One future improvement would be the speed of the liftoff and transition from drone to plane. Now can we upscale that to a one seater so I can avoid the traffic in my commute to Toronto.

hurra neue waffen wird ja auch zeit🤮🤮🤮

Skynet is going to be fucking terrifying

Not a smooth transition, is it?

kiedy amerykance sie naucza ze dorony maja byc poprostu tanie

The Harrier Pegasus thrust vectoring engine did basically the same thing in 1967

Clever

Flight controller going nuts during the transition. Lol. Still pretty smooth.

looks cool, now ya just gotta try to get the DOD to pay 250k per bird 😅🤣

Are you sure you're trying to make the world better because it's sure looks like you're trying to do something for military application.

*Unfixed-wing