{"id":705,"date":"2006-02-24T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2006-03-02T09:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:04:58","slug":"from-skynet-to-sky-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"From SkyNet to Sky One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pic\/CormorantMPUAV.jpg\" alt=\"CormorantMPUAV\" hspace=\"40\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of interesting things tied up in the U.S. military&#8217;s UCAV program, some of which I&#8217;ve previously mentioned (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=24\" target=\"blank\">Link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=247\" target=\"blank\">Link 2<\/a>), but this time I&#8217;m posting it for the &#8220;Wow, that thing reminds me of that old science fiction series <em>UFO<\/em>&#8221; {Edit &#8211; whoops. That should be &#8220;UFO&#8221; and not &#8220;Space: 1999&#8221;}. Maybe not the image above, but check this one over on New Scientist (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blog\/technology\/2006\/02\/submadrone.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>) and compare it to the &#8220;Sky One&#8221; aircraft from the television show (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufoseries.com\/hardware\/index.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe they don&#8217;t look quite the same but that&#8217;s because I couldn&#8217;t find a clip of the Sky One breaking the ocean&#8217;s surface. Oh well, at least they&#8217;re both underwater aircraft. Anyway, you can read and see more over on Popular Science (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/aviationspace\/63b259a122d89010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>{Image source: Popular Science}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are all sorts of interesting things tied up in the U.S. military&#8217;s UCAV program, some of which I&#8217;ve previously mentioned (Link 1, Link 2), but this time I&#8217;m posting it for the &#8220;Wow, that thing reminds me of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}