This aircraft is a peek at the future of unmanned aerial vehicles . Autonomous , sneak , various .
The Phantom Ray made its17 - minute official maid flightlast calendar week . It only hurry by at 204 mph at 7,500 invertebrate foot — but the 36,500 - pound radio-controlled aircraft is theoretically able of get through a cruise speed of 614 mph ( 0.8 Mach ) with a combat r of 1,200 nautical mi . It ’s also mean to aviate at 40,000 infantry . Developed as a test platform for in advance and future remote-controlled aerial technical school , the Phantom Ray is a stealth lagger that ’ll be able to fly and do missions essentially autonomously — no one has to sit at the controls while it ’s up there , doing its deadly thing .
Right now , it ’s designed to be capable of basically any variety of commission — from intelligence gather / surveillance to suppression of foe strain defense and electronic tone-beginning . There are a couple options for direct assault : Either twoJoint Direct Attach Munitionsor eightSmall Diameter Bombs .
Part of what makes it radical is that it come from Boeing’sPhantom Works , which rapidly prototypes and gets these things off the priming coat as tight as possible , even if when they ’re not entirely finish .
Here ’s to hoping it never gets too erratic . [ Defense Tech , CNET , Boeing ]
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