From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #137 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Sunday, 17 July 1994 Volume 05 : Number 137 In this issue: Re: Two new recon. vehicles announced in Newsweek See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: megazone@world.std.com (MegaZone) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 16:04:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Two new recon. vehicles announced in Newsweek Once upon a time larry@ichips.intel.com shaped the electrons to say... >The cancelled project was known as Tier 3. The vehicle was a very large, >expensive and stealthy Lockheed UAV design. It has been described as >resembling the B-2 bomber in size, radar low observability and expense. >Cost estimates per UAV, reported by those familiar with the project, >were around $400 million. The project was abandoned as being too expensive SHEESH! The size, stealthiness, and cost of a B-2? IN an unmanned aircraft?? Makes me wonder what else they've been funding out of the limelight. That's sort of a BIG project. What would be the major differences? Higher altitude, longer range? Anything you couldn't do by stuffing a B-2 full of gas tanks and the remote piloting system? I'm a real Lockheed groupie, but that sounds like it was just too much. $400 million is quite a bit to send off on its own, especially if it is a risky mission. One of the big advantages of UAVs (traditionally) is that they're 'expendable', at least moreso than a manned aircraft, so you can risk them. - -- megazone@wpi.wpi.edu megazone@world.std.com megazone@hotblack.gweep.net "I have one prejudice, and that is against stupidity. Use your mind, think!" Moderator: WPI anime FTP site, 130.215.24.1 /anime, the anime FanFic archive; rec.arts.anime.stories, questions to anime-dojinshi-request@wpi.wpi.edu GTW/HU d-- -p+ c++(++++) l u+ e+ m+(*)@ s++/+ !n h- f+ !g w+ t+@ r+@ y+(*) ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #137 ********************************* To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).