August 10, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/10/cold-war-2-and-buzz-around-russia-new-ultra-heavy-drone/
The Cold War perception of space
travel as being very human-oriented with man conquering Mars to build the
Capitalist or Communist cities of tomorrow has been completely replaced by the
reality that drones are much better suited for space exploration than humans.
When it comes to military aviation the situation is similar. The strongest and
weakest point of any pilot is his brain, which cannot stand the massive
gravitational forces that ultra-modern fighter jets are capable of creating. So
it is no surprise that at some point the US, Russia and China will unveil a
drone big enough and capable enough to replace any current generation bombers
and fighters removing the limitations of the human body’s weakness to big
gravity from military aviation. And, as of a few days ago the Russians did just
that.
The Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation just released video to the public of a test of their new massive
pilotless aircraft called “The Hunter”. This demonstration was
