Eh, been done
Posted on 11/20/2022 9:58:35 PM PST by blueplum
New Longbow 1 and 2 drones can both fly and swim, are cheaper than hypersonics and no known missile defense can stop them
...This week, The Eurasian Times reported that Chinese researchers from Harbin Engineering University had unveiled two cross-medium prototype submarine drones that can both swim and fly.
The drones, named Longbow 1 and Longbow 2, can each carry a 1-kilogram payload and dive to 100 meters underwater. Longbow 1 is a fixed-wing drone while Longbow 2 features a folding wing design...
...Professor Ji Wangfeng of China’s Naval Aviation University said in the Eurasian Times report that cross-medium weapons are the cheapest and most effective means of destroying a carrier battlegroup’s defenses....
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
Not.
Face it: Finding new ways of killing other human beings is the only thing that human beings are really good at.
Bfl
One theory of UFOs is many are actually submersible and go back underwater after zooming out of sight. “USO” for submersible.
Chinese carefully hid such things as a mysterious pyramid which they deliberately obscured with tons of soil and planted shrubs and trees. And most of their UFO reports are quickly suppressed and the witnesses silenced.
The common theory among ufologists (I’m not one) is that the military in US and Russia especially have reverse engineered alien artifacts and vehicle parts to produce composite resin stealth aircraft bodies, various breakthroughs in surveillance and high tech devices and heat shields for the space program.
If true (I’m not convinced) then Chinese could be showing their latest project of that kind.
Eh, been done
Calling Art Bell...
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