The Taranis drone is not all that new, as we first mentioned it half a decade ago, and delivered a footage of it just early last year. It does look as though the Taranis drone has plenty of potential, and happens to be one of the most cutting-edge drones in production. After all, it can hit speeds of more than 700 miles of an hour, allowing it to come and go unnoticed – saved for the sonic boom, of course.
Touted to be virtually invisible to radar, it was so named after the Celtic god of thunder. It seems that the development of the Taranis, with specific mention to its automatic features, has been mentioned as “shrouded in secrecy” in a 2013 UN report. So far, the Taranis’ capabilities remain more or less unknown to the masses, which is why it has ruffled the feathers of certain ethicists.
While the Taranis has not been deployed to date, and the UK military has not drawn up plans to ensure it ends up as part of its official fleet, it currently enjoys the status of a demonstrator. A demonstrator in this instance allows it to be used to test technologies which might see action in future aircraft.
BAE claims that the Taranis is capable of “undertaking sustained surveillance, marking targets, gathering intelligence, deterring adversaries, and carrying out strikes in hostile territory,” of course, all of this will be done under the supervision of a human operator, making this a drone on steroids.
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