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BAE Systems Solar-powered electric aircraft
BAE Systems has developed a solar-powered electric aircraft, PHASA-35, which is designed to operate unmanned in the stratosphere. The craft could stay aloft for up to one year, potentially offering an alternative to satellites. (www.springwise.com) 기타...
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We've come a long ways from the early 2000s when the BAE Systems VP I worked for told me that there was no point in pursuing opportunities in UAV flight controls because they would never amount to anything.
The technology is "offering an alternative to satellites." Any civilian satellite application could look into this as an ROI improvement...
BAE systems is a major military supplier. So you can guess who is going to be buying these.
The military?
Who do you think paid for the research!
The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and Australian Defence Science and Technology Group.
NATO, hence the US.
Trump/Putin hate NATO, so it's more likely that others are paying for it, and he will try to claim he did it.
