PRick escreveu:Penguin escreveu:
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Não se engane. Parte do que se desenvolve para o Gripen NG poderá ser aplicado nos Gripens atuais. Em algum momento a frota de Gripen necessitará passar por upgrades (Suécia, Hungria, Rep. Tcheca, Africa do Sul e Tailândia).
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Sim, e alguém está pagando isso, afinal, nenhum fabricante vai fazer isso de graça. Não é uma questão de querer ou de ter capacidade, mas de alguém estar disposto a pagar os custos, afinal, sem cliente, nenhuma empresa vai fabricar algo desse nível de custo. Não é uma geladeira ou uma torradeira.
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Mas claro que alguém paga Prick.
Vive-se em um mundo capitalista. Esqueça free lunch.
Algum paga para desenvolver e depois vender e lucrar e desenvolver mais.
Algum paga para usar e manter. E paga caro.
Essas empresas são obrigadas a desenvolver tecnologias todo o tempo. Elas vivem disso. Se não o fazem, perdem proficiência e mercado e perdem o sentido de existir.
O nEUROn é um exemplo disso:
European UAV from Saab to France
(Source: Saab Aerostructures; issued Feb. 4, 2011)
After six years of planning, design, and production, Saab has now delivered the fuselage for Neuron, the European UAV demonstrator, to the primary contractor Dassault Aviation.
Neuron is a European collaboration project to develop a UCAV demonstrator, Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. The aim is to develop expertise within advanced aeronautics. Six European countries are involved together with their aerospace industries: France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece and Switzerland.
The work packages being managed by Saab relate to low signature (stealth) technology, flight testing, aerodynamics, avionics, the fuel system, the critical part of the ground station, as well as the design and production of the main fuselage, which has now been completed. The material and design used is mainly a composites sandwich construction
The fuselage is being transported from Saab in Linköping to Istres, where Neuron's aft section is already located. This has been produced by HAI in Greece. At the end of February, structural parts will be arriving from RUAG in Switzerland, and the two wing halves being produced by EADS-CASA in Spain will arrive at the beginning of March.
The loading doors from Italy's Alenia, the landing gear doors from Saab, plus additional stealth components from Dassault will follow, before the ground tests scheduled for the last quarter of 2011 take place. The maiden flight is expected in mid-2012.
"For Saab, the remaining work mainly involves systems integration and flight testing. These are two of our specialist areas today, where we want to maintain our leading position," says Lennart Sindahl, head of the Aeronautics business area at Saab. "Neuron has helped us to develop our design and production methods, something that will benefit both civil and Gripen production," adds Lennart Sindahl. "Furthermore, the Neuron programme has led to greater cooperation between the participating European countries."