{"id":12810,"date":"2006-03-01T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/01\/cormorant-2\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T15:50:00","slug":"cormorant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/01\/cormorant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormorant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/aviationspace\/63b259a122d89010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cormorant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/cormorant.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><br \/>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/aviationspace\/63b259a122d89010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cormorant<\/a>, a design concept from Lockheed Martin&rsquo;s famous Skunk Works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy\u2019s gigantic Cold War\u2013era Ohio-class submarines. These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes to provide another unmanned option for spying on or destroying targets near the coast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes into some more detail, including some of the engineering challenges facing such an unusual design.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/naval\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">naval<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/engineering\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">engineering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/DrikoLand\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114122800528382448?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the Cormorant, a design concept from Lockheed Martin&rsquo;s famous Skunk Works: The Cormorant, a stealthy, jet-powered, autonomous aircraft that could be outfitted with either short-range weapons or surveillance equipment, is designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes in some of the U.S. Navy\u2019s gigantic Cold War\u2013era Ohio-class submarines. These formerly nuke-toting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/01\/cormorant-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cormorant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}