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Feb. 21st, 2003 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerNew Scientist report that the US Air Force is examining the feasibility of building a nuclear-powered remote-controlled aircraft. It would be a variant of the RQ-4 Global Hawk long-range reconnaissance drone modified to be powered by a novel quantum nucleonics reactor.
Even with my military engineering hat on this sounds rather barking, although I have to admit that it still pales into insignificance besides its 1950s forbear, the Project Pluto low-altitude supersonic nuclear ramjet missile. Now that was an idea so deranged it ended featuring up in one of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
autopope's short stories...
(Said story being the very good A Colder War, should anyone have missed it. Go, read, and gibber.)
MC
Even with my military engineering hat on this sounds rather barking, although I have to admit that it still pales into insignificance besides its 1950s forbear, the Project Pluto low-altitude supersonic nuclear ramjet missile. Now that was an idea so deranged it ended featuring up in one of
autopope's short stories... (Said story being the very good A Colder War, should anyone have missed it. Go, read, and gibber.)
MC
