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Boeing Goes The Marvel Route With Naming Of New Stealth Drone [Drones]
gizmodo.com - 5/11/2009
Boeing Goes The Marvel Route With Naming Of New Stealth Drone [Drones]
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Boeing's experimental unmanned " Phantom Ray " drone is scheduled for testing in 2010. Either Boeing is out of military-sounding code names or it, too, is caught up in the comic book craze that's seized Hollywood. Surprising no one, the Phantom Menace Ray parent program (X45-C) is funded ...

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Newlaunches.com:  Phantom Ray unmanned for US defense

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Phantom Ray unmanned for US defense
Newlaunches.com — ... Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research and development organization for the U.S. Department of Defense amounting to around $942 million. It is designed to do a number of things all by its lonesome, including bombing runs, surveillance and autonomous mid-air refueling. Its top speed reaches 0.85 Mach. Ceiling is 40,000 feet and it can carry 4,500 pounds. The kind of money that the defense personnel get is just no joke, but, honestly what can this one ACTUALLY do? [ Gizmodo ] ...

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