He revealed the automatic spy plane

Photographs of UK's first unmanned reconnaissance plane, BAE Systems, have just launched. Corax carries some of the characteristics of the US military reconnaissance aircraft that have stopped using DarkStar.

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Corax. (BBC)

Bill Sweetman, technical editor and aerospace editor for the International Defense Review, said Corax is representing a member of the spy plane with the same body structure but using different wings. , optimized for specific tasks.

" Just looking at the shape of the Corax, it evokes things that are designed to fly fairly high, fairly slow and have good endurance, which is like a typical reconnaissance aircraft ," he said.

" But if you replace the long wing and insert a short wing, you will have a much faster aircraft, not just a means of penetrating ."

The UK and US Air Force believe these unmanned aerial vehicles are playing a vital role in the wars of the 21st century.

He is working with the United States on the " Churchill Project ," which aims to combine control and control ideas into a unmanned aerial vehicle after 2015. The Corax prototype was built. To test the stability, control and presentation of this design.

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