澳大利亚武麦拉试验场
Photo by BAE Systems/Chris Ryding | 2013-08-16 22:02:00 |
2013年8月16日，澳大利亚武麦拉试验场，英国宇航 (BAE系统公司)“雷电之神”无人机进行飞行测试，该机于一周前的10日首飞，BAE系统公司一直在使用这个试验场进行无人机试飞，在此试飞过的无人机包括“曼提斯”（MANTIS，也译“螳螂”）、“赫提”（HERTI）、“渡鸦”（Corax）和“乌鸦”（Raven）。“雷电之神”以凯尔特神话中的雷神命名，该机的尺寸与“鹰”式教练机接近，总重大约8吨，是英国研制的最大的无人机，用来验证英国第一代UCAV的自主控制和隐身技术。（Image of Taranis, Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) in flight.The UK Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) and BAE Systems have revealed that Taranis, the stealthy unmanned combat vehicle demonstrator and the most advanced aircraft ever built by British engineers, surpassed all expectations during its first flight trials last year. Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, made its maiden flight at an undisclosed test range on Saturday 10th August 2013, under the command of BAE Systems’ test pilot Bob Fraser. The demonstrator aircraft made a perfect take-off, rotation, ‘climb-out’ and landing on its 15 minute first flight. A number of flights took place last year, of up to one hour in duration and at a variety of altitudes and speeds. The details were revealed at a briefing held in London today.The Taranis demonstrator is the result of one-and-a-half-million man hours of work by the UK’s leading scientists, aerodynamicists and systems engineers from 250 UK companies. The aircraft has been designed to demonstrate the UK’s ability to create a unmanned air system which, under the control of a human operator, is capable of undertaking sustained surveillance, marking targets, gathering intelligence, deterring adversaries and carrying out strikes in hostile territory.）
