Chief Constable Alex Marshall of Hampshire Constabulary said drones stay in the air longer and are cheaper than conventional aircraft.
This aircraft, dubbed the V-22, is capable of taking off and landing like a helicopter and of transitioning to horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft in mid-air.
The Osprey, readers of this space will recall, is a remarkable "tilt-rotor" airplane, capable of taking off and landing vertically but able to rotate its turboprop engines in flight so as to fly like a conventional aircraft.
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This aircraft which has the capability to take off and land like a helicopter yet convert in flight to move horizontally like a conventional aircraft represents the most important single advance in aviation since the introduction of the jet engine.
By sizing this vehicle for internal carriage, the full tactical and operational benefits of the Osprey's speed -- approximately 270 knots in its conventional aircraft mode -- can be exploited, instead of having to externally sling-load the larger and heavier HMMWV at a much reduced range and speed.
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Downing Street, it seems, wanted some positive headlines out of the SDSR, which was largely an exercise in cutbacks, so it decided to back the idea of Britain getting a "grown up" aircraft carrier, ie one launching conventional aircraft with catapults rather than a very large replacement "Harrier Carrier".
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For example, two presidents have failed to approve the sale of new F-16 aircraft and new conventional submarines to Taiwan in hopes that China will moderate its aggressive actions.
But the shift towards synthetic fuel has provoked criticism, because when such fuel is made from coal and then burned in an aircraft engine, more greenhouse gases are emitted overall than would be produced if the aircraft simply burned conventional fuel derived from oil.
The proposal to limit aircraft and troops under the conventional talks enormously complicates the CFE negotiations.
It has agreed to sell Tehran's radical fundamentalists a muscular array of advanced conventional weapons, including submarines, fighter aircraft, antiship missiles and air defense systems.
Even when expanded, however, they will prove far less expensive than obsolete conventional assets such as multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier groups.
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Regional, Conventional Dimensions: SDI can enhance regional and conventional security and deter adventurism by providing protection against ballistic missiles and high-flying aircraft to U.S. and allied forward-based ground and naval assets including conventional forces throughout the world.
In addition to the strategic nuclear forces, the U.S. has nuclear bombers consisting of F-15E and F-16 Dual-Capable Aircraft (DCA) that can deliver conventional or tactical nuclear bombs in the B61 family.
These missiles essentially pilotless aircraft capable of high accuracy delivery of nuclear or conventional ordinance over long distances from a variety of surface and subsurface naval platforms represent a powerful force-multiplier for the U.S. Navy.
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Not mentioned by the secretary is the fact that China is aggressively building a conventional power projection navy that by the 2020s will have multiple aircraft carriers, perhaps with advanced fifth-generation fighters and a significant amphibious force.
It and the seven other operational Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the core of the US's world conventional military reach.
This aircraft offers the real capability of projecting U.S. conventional or nuclear power anywhere in the globe within hours of a decision to do so.
STOVL for the marines' version of the aircraft, while staying as similar as possible to the more conventional models going to the navy and air force.
It allows the creation of parts in shapes that conventional techniques cannot achieve, resulting in new, much more efficient designs in aircraft wings or heat exchangers, for example.
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Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.
Rather, the purchase or indigenous production of advanced fifth-generation stealth aircraft, nuclear submarines, anti-ship and other ballistic missiles, new generations of nuclear and conventional forces, space weapons, etc.
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