{"id":74692,"date":"2017-12-25T13:16:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T21:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/nuclear-drones-are-not-technically-challenging-and-could-fly-for-years"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:13:18","slug":"nuclear-drones-are-not-technically-challenging-and-could-fly-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/nuclear-drones-are-not-technically-challenging-and-could-fly-for-years","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear drones are not technically challenging and could fly for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EaJ1RiQSt0g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/irp\/eprint\/sand-uav.pdf\" target=blank>From 2008\u20132011, Sandia National Labs and Northrop Grumman designed nuclear drones that would be able to fly for many months.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has put $3.3 billion into making new highly compact nuclear reactors which would also use for nuclear powered drones.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/apr\/02\/us-plans-nuclear-drones\" target=blank>The potential impact of nuclear-powered drones<\/A> can be seen by comparing them with existing aircraft such as the MQ-9 Reaper, which is used extensively in Afghanistan and Pakistan in operations against insurgents. The Reaper presently carries nearly two tonnes of fuel in addition a similar weight of munitions and other equipment and can stay airborne for around 42 hours, or just 14 hours when fully loaded with munitions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/12\/nuclear-powered-drones-are-technically-feasible-and-could-fly-for-years.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2017\/12\/nuclear-powered-drones...years.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2008\u20132011, Sandia National Labs and Northrop Grumman designed nuclear drones that would be able to fly for many months. China has put $3.3 billion into making new highly compact nuclear reactors which would also use for nuclear powered drones. The potential impact of nuclear-powered drones can be seen by comparing them with existing aircraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74887,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74692\/revisions\/74887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}