Evo i Izraelci rade na nekoj novoj vijagri za pilote da ih drze budnima.

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Air Forces all around the world drug their pilots, to keep ‘em alert.  A new Israeli military report says the "Viagra family of drugs" might be the best pills for the job.   Seriously.

"Military researchers believe the ingredients that allow improved blood flow for men suffering from sexual problems may help flyers operating at very high altitudes," the Times of London reports.

The proposal, to be presented to the air force by a retired general, developed from a study by Israeli doctors among mountain climbers scaling Mount
Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, according to Bamahaneh (“On the Army Base”), an official military magazine. The study found that tadalafil, the active ingredient in Cialis, a Viagra-like antiimpotence drug, helped climbers to ward off fatigue and dizziness at greater heights.

With combat pilots operating hi-tech equipment in low-pressure environments, doctors believe the drug could enhance their operational abilities.

“The Viagra family of drugs is considered effective in these conditions because when there is a long shortage in oxygen it leads to high blood pressure in the lungs, and the drugs help fight that,” a military medical officer told the weekly magazine.

UPDATE: There’s just one teeny-tiny problem with the plan, as our friend B.W. Jones reminds us: Viagra, Cialis, and the like might just make you go blind in the long run.

For decades, the armed forces around the globe have tried all sorts of ways to keep its soldiers and pilots awake.   During World War II,  American, German, Japanese, and British troops were all issued rations of amphetamines.  In the early days of the Afghanistan war, these "go pills"
were blamed for a particularly ugly "friendly fire" incident.  A newer drug, modafinil, is now being pushed in the U.S. military as a safer alternative.

DARPA, the Pentagon’s way-out research arm, is funding scientific studies into more exotic answers to combat the effects of sleeplessness. Columbia University psychologists, working under a DARPA
grant, are keeping people awake for 48 hours straight — and then zapping their brains with focused magnetic waves, to keep their cognitive capacities intact.  The researchers recently published a study showing that the transcranial magnetic stimulation was able to "improve the working memory performance" of the sleep-deprived. Lexicon
Genetics has found genetic targets in mice that seem to make sleep itself more restorative, enhancing learning and memory.  And  Wisconsin professor Giulio Tononi is breeding a strain of fruit flies that gets by on just a third the normal amount of sleep

Ima dobar clanak o ovom novom stealth avionu F-35 na linku ispod,
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 Preliminary studies in America show that pilots popping the pills remained alert even after 40 hours without sleep. Other tests have looked at how troops function after staying awake for 85 hours on the drug.

Da funkcionises posle 85 SATI BEZ SPAVANJA jeeeeee uh ,koliko bih love zaradio da ne moram da spavam .

Interesantno!

A sta bude posle sa tim sto uzimaju te hemikalije - to niko ne prica?

Pa valjda ih sačeka neka ženska kada slete, ipak je to vijagra

Juuuu...
 

Ne znam kako nam je ovo promaklo?
Americki takmac iste namene...

Phantom Ray

After only two years of development, the Phantom Ray unmanned airborne system (UAS) was unveiled at a ceremony in St. Louis on May 10. Built by Boeing in St. Louis, the sleek, fighter-sized UAS combines survivability with a powerful arsenal of new capabilities.

“Phantom Ray offers a host of options for our customers as a test bed for advanced technologies, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; suppression of enemy air defenses; electronic attack and autonomous aerial refueling – the possibilities are nearly endless,” said Dennis Muilenburg, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

With a 50-foot wingspan and measuring 36 feet long, Phantom Ray was designed and developed by Boeing Phantom Works based on a prototype the company had originally created less than a decade ago for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/U.S. Air Force/U.S. Navy Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS) program. Using a rapid-prototyping approach, Phantom Ray evolved into the technology demonstrator unveiled today on the floor of Boeing’s St. Louis facility.

“We’re really excited about this because Phantom Works is back as a rapid prototyping house, operation and organization,” said Craig Brown, Boeing Phantom Ray program manager. “This is the first of what I expect to be many exciting prototypes, and they’re all with exciting technology.”

Financed entirely by Boeing, Phantom Ray is a testament to the company and its Phantom Works division’s commitment to becoming the leader in the global unmanned systems market.

“Phantom Ray represents a series of significant changes we’re making within Boeing Defense, Space & Security,” said Darryl Davis, president of Phantom Works. “For the first time in a long time, we are spending our own money on designing, building and flying near-operational prototypes. We’re spending that money to leverage the decades of experience we have in unmanned systems that span the gamut from sea to space.”

This revolutionary aircraft is on-schedule to take its first taxi tests later this summer and soar through its initial flight profiles as early as December, continuously gaining ground toward becoming an unmanned system that could one day penetrate enemy forces and provide a new specter of security for the warfighter.

Phantom Ray

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Wikipedia

Ima vec stosta da se pronadje o njemu kljucna rec za pretragu Phantom Ray

Bravo,bravo!

Ne znam kako nam je promaklo.
Ja se cudim kako Ameri ne reaguju,al reko...Sad ce oni...

Dobre stvari. Ali nisu ni Britanci macji kasalj. Harrier koriste i Ameri posto su odustali tada bili od svojih projekata i jednostavno su kupili Britansku robu

A vidite sta pise na wiki:

Developed from    Boeing X-45C
Razvijen iz X-45C...

Nekako mi ovaj Phantom Ray izgleda realnije od Taranis-a.Ne znam sto,ali...

Koji troll... omg...