Hi,
From the Ares blog:
Now look at AGT's core technology: One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP). The key breakthrough is the ability to generate and sustain plasmas in air (not gas in a tube) at atmospheric pressures, with reasonable power consumption.
This may be about a lot more than UAV flight controls. But it also raises the question of why the technology wasn't better protected in the first place, if it was so sensitive; and that may in turn suggest that plasma stealth has been considered as a rival to conventional stealth - in which literally hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested - and has been ignored rather than being researched.
(h)ttp://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a2ba4cc01-f3cf-41e6-9f05-bf326e93f36c
Looks rather interesting to a layperson like me... any experts that would like to comment?
V.
From the Ares blog:
Now look at AGT's core technology: One Atmosphere Uniform Glow Discharge Plasma (OAUGDP). The key breakthrough is the ability to generate and sustain plasmas in air (not gas in a tube) at atmospheric pressures, with reasonable power consumption.
This may be about a lot more than UAV flight controls. But it also raises the question of why the technology wasn't better protected in the first place, if it was so sensitive; and that may in turn suggest that plasma stealth has been considered as a rival to conventional stealth - in which literally hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested - and has been ignored rather than being researched.
(h)ttp://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a2ba4cc01-f3cf-41e6-9f05-bf326e93f36c
Looks rather interesting to a layperson like me... any experts that would like to comment?
V.
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