UAVs Hot Topic in Paris -- DoD Buzz
If you comb through the press releases, special displays and briefings at the 100th year of the Paris Air Show, unmanned aerial vehicles loom larger than anything else.
Virtually every major company is offering briefings on their standard bearers: Lockheed is looking at delivering on the promise of the F-35. Boeing and Northrop are doing updates on airborne tankers. And EADS will be talking a lot about their troubled A400M transport aircraft and why the C-130J is the wrong plane for France to buy. But it is the UAV briefings from the Israelis, Northrop, Boeing and others that offer the best promise of news and of new products.
The reason for the excitement about UAVs is not just that no one seems able to get enough of them to satisfy the military’s needs. It’s a wide open market, one that the primes have not gobbled up yet or figured out how to dominate.
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My Comment: My prediction .... if there is a Reaper or Global Hawk UAV at the show, the public will swarm just to see them up close. Have it fly over the heads of the public .... this will wow them even more.