US Airmen Prepare Massive $230 Million Drone for Extreme Spy Mission 

In April 2001, an RQ-4 drone flew from the U.S.A. and landed at the RAAF base at Edinborough, South Australia - all by itself (ie. entirely autonomous, if I remember correctly).

Just amazing.

There’s no way this capability would cost 200M+ if designed with the technology available today. Just look at what Anduril can do with their drones. The old US defense contractors have been fleecing the US taxpayer for decades.

Couldn't agree more! It's an exciting and thrilling adventure.

sitting at the threshold in Kandahar watching these things take off and land was amazing. The first time i saw them the pilots were talking to tower and i thought it was a normal aircraft. Astonishing.

Many thanks!👍👍

Huge Bird...amazing footage.

Those downlocks look more expensive than my car.

Less video, more content maybe. Not sure how Globalhawk went from $10m flyaway to $230m... seems rather absurd. A 787 costs this much. Its an old design. WTF?

10:02. Loving that twin-cylinder 'turboprop' engine.

The fact that is is a RU-vid video makes me think this must be old technology.

☠BLACK BARON☠ 4:46 The Tech Signs on top of the V-Wings works.

Just a beautiful bird

Very nice!

The Griffen MQM target drone appears to me to have a 2 cylinder internal combustion engine and not a turboprop engine in the description.

The landing gear locks 0:53 seem over-engineered compared to those log-on-a-rope chocks! You'd think they'd also have high-tech chocks or also use axe-hewn trestles or something. I don't know, the two extremes just struck me...

Watched it fly around my location a while back and it looked like parts were falling off in flight. 😮

Those actuators were $500000 to produce.

I'd do the voice over for one thousand dollars....the subtitles alone inhibit actually watching the video bruh. Just 1k dollars and mic me up!

VAMOS PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

What is the significance of the various colored belts? Similar as the shirts on a carrier? Have any of them been shot down?

"Powered by a pusher turboprop" - my arse, that's a two cylinder piston engine.

Yeah, sun glasses and a cool smile are a must for every soldier there... . Only the best stuff. You couldn't bring the numbers on the table China does for example. And why (USA is a great country with many great people! I have been there, even on the old WTC and Manhattan was a blast to me in 1992!)? You make the best Fast Food in the whole world. I don't mean the Mc D. - stuff but the really good stuff. American Pizza and so on. You have the most beautiful girls and women on planet earth. You are great. Why do you always stick your nose in other countries "things"? I know that common people won't do this. i loved many of movies created in the USA. I still do. I love many series. Breaking Bad. Legendary. But also movies from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s and sometimes evene newer stuff. And so many great series. North and South with Patrick Swayze, David Carradine and so many others was, is and will always be one of my all-time-favourites. So many great actors, actresses, himan beings. Just great in so many ways. As a kid I even loved your military models of aircraft mainly and would build them. Although "war machines" every boy, nearly every boy, loves american old style toys from the 80s, for example. And so many wonderful legendary music. From swing to Rock 'n' Roll, 60s music, the psychedelic stuff of the later 60s and early 70s, Hard Rock and Metal, really great rap music although I am no real fan of rap. But Grandmaster Flash, Beastie Boys, 2 Live Crew when I was 12 or 13, Guns and Roses, - I couldn't count everything I love about the USA. And that's for real. But why do your politicians and military just relax? They don't have to solve anything in the world. It wouldn't work and you saw it many times. Please. Set signs for peace. And don't let some super-richt "elites" fool you. And what are you doing with Germany? There wouldn't be many Germans in 50 years if it goes on like this. Why is your military still here? Why? We have no "Nazi-problem". We have other problems. Financial Problems, problems with immigrants who won't behave like gentle people. And too many for such a small country like Germany. Germans are peaceful for over 70 years. No one here who is (emotionally) intelligent is a right-winger, a racist or anything like that. But we got many extremists. And who tells our politicians what to do? Why? Why don't you just let good hearted people live their lives free? Please, people. Love, Peace & Harmony. Pleace politicians. Stop those wars. Make peace. The whole human world would profit. No one would have to suffer. No one can put money in his grave. No one can buy health, or love, or be loved. And life is too short for all the sh..t that's going on. "When will we ever learn?" Love. And I believe in more than this "human" world. I won't hate any once more in my life. I won't. And nobody has to. You, the country of opportunities, formed a new lifestyle, a free lifestyle, and you were the first ones in historic epoche. So please remember. Don't let evil rule over yourselves. You could still be idols with your power and might. You could change the world for the better, for everyone, without war. I know it never would happen and I don't matter but I would love to spend an evening talking and listening, to have a conversation with an in my opinion very intelligent caring person like today's Elon Musk, for example. Or just with loving, gentle, good, true souls not matter who you are. Best wishes.

What was it Super duper extreme mission? 😅

These drones are getting bigger. This is almost a regular Airplane size lol ;)

Space drones/drones in space!

Isn't it amazing what you can do with other people's money??? ;-)

Love

Would not mind a penny for every C-130 hercules I have deiced in the early hours even sprayed ourselves to keep warm in the past

အဲ့ဒီလိုဒရုန်း(၃)လုံးလောက်ဆိုငါတို့ရဲ့နေပြည်တော်အနေတော်ပဲကွာ၊သမ္မတကြီးဂျိုးဘိုင်ဒန်၊ခင်ဗျာ၊မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၊(နေပြည်တော် အတွက်လက်ဆောင်ပေးလိုက်ပါဗျာ။

the future of private jet ,

Looks like the Alien from the movie Aliens

Пипец Он Огромный 😮

$230 million Drone. Must say the US MIC definitely has the best, most advanced, and most effective laundry service to extract tax payer dollar$ in the world

I always get a kick out of the Drone Pilots who dress up in flight suits!

Takes off like a U2, sounds like a 737. And Edward hijacks it for a pizza run! You can have an extra piece of pie for supper if you get the reference.....PS one on display at USAF museum.

chouette on reinvente l'avion!

For 230 million $, you would think it could protect itself.

Friggen Marines dude

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What drone at 0:07?

it's not 230 million, it's 230 billion

Lets Gooooooo

10-20 million $ is the actual cost

U2 wings

La gerra mundial silenciosa en eugropa crese una gerra con visiles artilleria mortero

T2

powerful

أسلحة أثبتت فشلها في كثير من العمليات الحربية

Snow crew. Hard at. Work. Getting all that. Snow. Off the. Runway. A. Tedious. Job.

لا تقل انها mq9فقد دفنت في رمال اليمن😂😂😂😂

0:16 What is he doing?

Porque no hacen drones con Ametralladoras para eliminar los imbasores

Why do the remote operators need to wear nomex fireproof flight suits?

Autonomous in five years ?

$230M???!! Ok.... ok... I hope it is worth it.

$230 million dollars huh? I can think of many more things to spend that much money on and get way better results.

Are these real pilots who have been injured ands can no longer physically fly or drone "pilots"

Yeah. We're going to show everyone what we're going to spy on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Oh brother 🥺

Comme cela, il sera plus facile à abattre !

This is not the same one that Iran burned 😂😂😂

Not smart to be walking a missile round around without its lollipop.

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Does it fly to Russian new borders?

أسلحة مبالغ في فعاليتها العسكرية لإخافة الآخرين / أمريكا نمر من ورق

Me imagino para espiar a los rusos y los iraníes

Drone hunting drones ?

are you just teasing the chinese with this? lol

This $230 million US Military Drone is just another day's work at the office for all of the honest, hard-working and patriotic Americans from the Military Industrial Complex. But the credits must go to those brave and honourable congressmen/women who fought their hearts out to make sure the contract is signed, sealed and delivered. America's National Security always come first. Oh wait! Almost forgot to mention that all team members get a share of the $230 million once the costs of production are deducted. The real-world estimate for this drone is $50 million Max. FOREVER WARS = FOREVER BONUSES for the patriotic senators and contractors.

That thing costs too much

Yes it can spy, but where? Just above very very few defenceless nations.

There is no way that drone cost so much money...methinks someone is on the grift.

It is very expensive, at such a price that Pakistan will get (10) 4.5 generation jets JF-17 Thunder.I think there is a lot of corruption in this by the US government, such an expensive drone, the cost of this drone will be 10 fighter jets, which will be even better.

Apakah anda fobia teknologi komersil 🇨🇳

230 million - I call bullshit.

And then the Houthis shoot it down 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The same as the 9/11 ………………………israeli drone

RC model aeroplanes:) what the cost if they are done for army? real cost is 500eur...for army 5000? :) good buissnis

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При боевом применении совершено бесполезен,очень легко сбивается,там где есть ПВО ,просто дорогая игрушка Пентагона,одни понты и больше нечего

About Mq9 in Yemen 😅

and iran shoots it down

cuma gadang2 alutsita meski gitu selalu ikut campur negara lain padahan alutsistanya ga terbukti malah keok

It looks like some flying whale, In a good way.

Металолом ....

Ah...pour tout détruire...vous en avez du fric...👎

$230 million droned assembled using Home Depot hardware. What a waste of American tax payer's money ....

How can one drone almost cost as much as three F35's? If was shot down that is a big chunk of dollars down the drain. Spare no expense so it seems when 34 trillion in debt. Remember it states this is for one drone. I'm for the military but there has to be limits to costs.

Iran made this drone dive into the Gulf waters 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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As kaya tapi kekayaan itu bukan masuk ke negara sendiri tapi untuk modal negara lain berperang itu tindakan bodoh

Bagus bisa langsung ke tempat kantor pemimpin zolim selesai kan

Why are we wasting money on stuff like this when we have satellites ?

caída bomba estados unidos

Big toy

☝️ en espérant que les russes ne pissent pas dessus comme avec le rippers 😊 sinon il est très globuleux 🦃 !!

This is something like the Bismarck. Too big, too expensive when either a determined enemy or a lucky shot will bring it down. Better to focus on a hornets nest of smaller, more agile Armada of lethal drones to deal with the numbers the Chinese can put up.

People who fly drones should not be called pilots. To pilot you need to be in or on the vehicle. Should be called operators or directors

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