x-47b ucas drone

spaceagent-9 · #1 12-21-2011, 10:54 AM

how about this baby huh?

Gallery

they said it was a flying saucer when they were transporting it thru kansas this week.
it would be kind of nice to do a history of drones and post them, maybe like one a week by different modelers.

**milenio3** · #2 12-21-2011, 11:00 AM

Amazing! I thought it was smaller...

**mchale** · #3 12-21-2011, 11:11 AM

I will design one

spaceagent-9 · #4 12-21-2011, 11:59 AM

how many drones are there? and im thinking of the batwing type only , as the cruise missle kind are pretty heavily made as a seperate class of drones.
something like from the gulf war on, or maybe the x-b series 1-28+?

**vipers7** · #5 12-21-2011, 02:31 PM

How many...real ones? Or the paper ones??? Like Tekzo's RQ-170 here:
paperhobby: RQ-170 "Beast of Kandahar" 1:72

spaceagent-9 · #6 12-21-2011, 07:19 PM

that is totally cool!
do you know how to download the instructions, or do i have to read them off the site?
im such a nerd i think this drone models is totally cool.

spaceagent-9 · #7 12-21-2011, 08:19 PM

here is some pics of a drone in use to catch drug runners
the global hawk.

**widget** · #8 12-21-2011, 11:13 PM

There's this one : http://www.papermodels.co.il/Images/072_UCAV.jpg

spaceagent-9 · #9 12-22-2011, 12:44 AM

hey thats a neat one too!

**mspacemike** · #10 12-22-2011, 01:29 AM

There are only a small handful of papermodel drones out there. The RQ-170 as mentioned, the Northrop Grumman UCAV in 1/72 or 1/32 by ModelArt, Global Hawk by a few people (a bit square, but I would like to see one done properly). There is even a Coast Guard Version of the Global Hawk at maquettes.hautetfort.com. There are the paper models of the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper. Also not talked about much is the MQ-8B Fire Scout (see myhobbycraft.blogspot.com) and Sikorsky Cypher (papercraftsquare.com) as a papermodel. Popular Mechanics just had a wonderful article on the X-47B with cover artwork (worth looking over). As you can tell, I like drones too. My favorites are the old firebees and then the new stealth variety.