{"id":73,"date":"2009-11-10T21:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=73"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:14:48","slug":"an-invisible-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2009\/11\/10\/an-invisible-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"An invisible plane turning into a helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Invisible Plane? According to the latest news from the <strong>military<\/strong> supplies world, the British Ministry of Defense is looking for suppliers capable of supplying an <strong>UCAV<\/strong> (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) similar to a <strong>Stealth<\/strong> plane, but also equipped with rotors which make it float like a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/surveillance-drones.php\">pilotless helicopter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This <strong>prototype<\/strong> is to be used both in <strong>urban<\/strong> guerrilla warfare situations, for crime enforcement, and most of all in <strong>war zones<\/strong>, especially where the terrain is <strong>rough<\/strong> and not very safe for ground troops, such as for example the <strong>mountains<\/strong> and gorges in Afghanistan, where troops might be subject to <strong>ambushes<\/strong> while an automated plane could easily strike without any <strong>risk<\/strong> for personnel.<\/p>\n<h3>How does an invisible plane work?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Specific requests made by the <strong>Ministry<\/strong>, in fact, are aimed at an <strong>optimization<\/strong> of results obtained by conventional (manned) planes and missiles equipped with target <strong>acquisition<\/strong> and pointing systems, by using new designs on UAV-type planes, both in war areas with a range of up to <strong>900<\/strong> kilometers, and in urban environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the current stage, the Ministry is starting private and confidential <strong>negotiations<\/strong> with three industries operating in the missile, <strong>aerospac<\/strong>e and UAV field, which will have to submit a project draft, according to requirements set, within the first months of 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the features listed in these <strong>requirements<\/strong>, along with flexibility of usage that makes it possible to quickly <strong>turn<\/strong> the vehicle from a plane to a copter and vice versa, the possibility of being <strong>launched<\/strong> from board of a frigate <strong>ship<\/strong> at sea. The results of the development program, called<br \/>\n<strong>Novel Air Concept<\/strong>, are expected to be seen by <strong>2015<\/strong>, with a first experimental operating phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invisible Plane? According to the latest news from the military supplies world, the British Ministry of Defense is looking for suppliers capable of supplying an UCAV (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) similar to a Stealth plane, but also equipped with rotors which make it float like a pilotless helicopter. This prototype<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/6155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}