DASSAULT DUC UAV :

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Okay, it's look like a model kit (It's an UAV), but it's also a concentrate of stealth technology :

Dassault Aviation is working on its 'Duc' series of demonstrator vehicles, adopting a 'family' approach to technology demonstration that aims to give the French company the capability to develop a range of operational UAVs - should it be required to do so - spanning the long-dwell, high altitude surveillance role currently carried out by the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, through unmanned reconnaissance air vehicles (URAVs), tactical UAVs (TUAVs) for army observation roles and finally UCAVs themselves.

In 1999, Dassault Aviation asked Aviation Design to study with their team and build a prototype of a stealth UAV: the "Petit Duc" (Little Duke). It was developed to validate aerodynamic and radar cross section models for Dassault stealth UAVs. The principal objective in designing the Petit Duc was to achieve the lowest possible radar signature. The radar cross section is about the same as a sparrow.

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I've heard about the Duc before. Nice article, Nans! Looks like the US is not holding ALL the cards! Hooray for the guillotine, Pacific Island testing and paté!

Vive la France!

...and I can't help having bad taste for my clothes, I'm a student and broke!!

It will be used to airdrop french surrender notices over vast distances without endangering the crew.

Comes with an ejection seat with auto excretion removal and a white flag.

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You are not wrong, fury...

Looks cool Nans,great find.

Thanks for the link, Nans! Sometime I'll get around to putting up a signature line...

GOOD ONE!

LOL! Ok, I just began sipping my evening wine (california) when I read your response - I thought I was going to choke I was laughing so hard! Good one!

Don't disrespect the French! Don't forget that they once flattened the whole of Europe!

And then the Poms trashed them at Trafalgar... and again at Waterloo... and the Russkies thumped them at Kiev...

I'm with Russian. Let me applaud on that one.

please,
europe just felt bad for them for a few months, that's all.

Fury,

LOL!

funniest thing I read here in awhile.

I think the French like wine and sex better than their cheese even.

Very interesting UAV. It will no be as advanced as the X-45B or the X-45C though.