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Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: Dj4vG ()
Date: August 08, 2014 07:21PM

If you had a drone powered by an onboard nuclear reactor, could the drone have power to be very very large? I was thinking of like the opening scene in Terminator with that thing flying around. I read the Russians tried to make a nuclear powered airplane but abandonded it, I guess in case it crashed, etc.

A nuclear powered drone could fly for an unlimited time and also have enough energy to power the new laser the NRL is developing..

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: August 08, 2014 07:24PM

This guy will help you kickstart your great idea.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/1622894.html

Blessed are the murderous.

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: 6XCnM ()
Date: August 08, 2014 09:38PM

>new laser the NRL is developing..

railgun maybe

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: Gccgnj ()
Date: August 09, 2014 08:22AM

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/02/us-plans-nuclear-drones

Sandia Labs has already researched them, only reason they aren't building them is the public would be worried about them crashing or falling into the wrong hands.

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: August 09, 2014 09:48AM

In the 50s and 60s they were developing nuclear-powered jet engines so bombers could stay aloft for weeks or months. The engine itself was tested on a B36 bomber and worked pretty well, but the shielding for the crew was very heavy, and when the thing was on the ground it was very difficult to approach to work on because it was so radioactive. The airplane it was meant for was never built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_aircraft

Another project was to build a cruise missile powered by a nuclear ramjet, which would circle over the ocean for months on end, waiting for the order to proceed to its targets and nuke them. It could carry something like 40 nuclear warheads. This thing was pretty much the closest thing to a nuclear-powered drone anyone ever almost built. It was to be powered by a nasty unshielded reactor core so unless there was actually a war you'd never fly it over populated areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQGBBsLiP6w

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: vEELM ()
Date: August 11, 2014 09:06PM


you mom's been using one for a while


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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: NeJjc ()
Date: August 11, 2014 09:06PM

^^ nuclear powered "drones" do not run out of batteries !! ^^

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Re: Nuclear powered drones?
Posted by: LMK7b ()
Date: August 11, 2014 09:07PM

they told this woman the name of the broadcast while she was on stage
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