protected vehicle, the m-wrap, unlike the humvee an m-wrap has a v-shaped hole. there are a number of different types of m-raps now. i got to tour a whole yard of them in southern afghanistan last year. they are tough, heavy, thick-skinned vehicles designed to reflect the force of any of any blast away from its occupants. the m-wrap is a great, great advance over the humvee for u.s. troops fighting the kinds of wars they have been fighting for almost a decade now in iraq and afghanistan. the standard for them has been raised. it was a great improvement. ask them. this week boeing announced the maiden voyage of its brand new giant stealth drone called the phantom ray. this is what it looks like it. can fly at 40,000 feet, they say. they say it can fly at nearly the speed of sound, and since it s an unmanned vehicle it has no need for a pesk fragile human to be inside of it. 9/11 and post- 9/11 wars have given birth to a huge unmanned
the m wrap has a v-shaped hull. there are a number of different types of m raps now. i got a tour a whole yard of them in southern afghanistan last year. they are tough, heavy, thick-skinned vehicles designed to deflect the force of any blast underneath the vehicle away from its occupants. it is frankly a great, great advance over the humvee for u.s. troops finding the kinds of wars they have been fighting for almost a decade in iraq and afghanistan. the standard for them has been raised. it was a great improvement, ask them. this week boeing announced the maiden voyage of its stealth drone. it s called the phantom ray. can fly at 40,000 feet. they say it can fly at nearly the speed of sound. it s an unmanned vehicle. it has no need for a a fragile human inside of it. 9/11 and the wars have given birth to a huge unmanned vehicle industry. more companies have competed
the m wrap has a v-shaped hull. there are a number of different types of m raps now. i got a tour a whole yard of them in southern afghanistan last year. they are tough, heavy, thick-skinned vehicles designed to deflect the force of any blast underneath the vehicle away from its occupants. it is frankly a great, great advance over the humvee for u.s. troops finding the kinds of wars they have been fighting for almost a decade in iraq and afghanistan. the standard for them has been raised. it was a great improvement, ask them. this week boeing announced the maiden voyage of its stealth drone. it s called the phantom ray. can fly at 40,000 feet. they say it can fly at nearly the speed of sound. it s an unmanned vehicle. it has no need for a pesky, fragile human inside of it. 9/11 and the wars have given birth to a huge unmanned vehicle industry. more companies have competed
the northrop x-47b and what is amazing, these are potential the items could buy and private industry in some cases, for example the hummingbird and the northrop x-47b would be like a military fighter and carries the payload of a jet and, pilotless of course and is designed to take off and land from a carrier, aircraft carrier and i can tell you from being on a carrier a bunch of times doing that with a piloted plane is quite difficult and boeing has the phantom ray and the idea when you talk to men and women involved in the industry it is getting rid of the dull dirty and dangerous. how we are using unmanned systems today, we own the aerospace, it is uncontested and we do not expect that to be the face in flying applications on unmanned systems in the future. that aerospace will be contested, and will be denied, someone may be shooting at you and you need to, you know,
well beyond that. ten years ago when the war on terrorrer really started and began to heat up in the middle east for us and in certain areas, for example in afghanistan, we ve moved from those smaller-type drones that can only go up in some cases for just a few hours to ones that can stay up for weeks at a time. you re looking at northrop s x47b, this is more like a military fighter jet. it can carry the same payload as a military fighter jet. it is planned to take off and land on an aircraft carrier. that is something that is difficult for a pirated craft let alone one that is pilotless. boeing has a phantom ray. there s is going in for test flights in the coming month. its the same type of fighter jet unmanned aerial systems that are controlled basically by a mouse. you don t have somebody sitting there with a joy stick any more, it s a point and click-type of