It doesn't end well.
R2-D2.
Yay, Skynet!
It doesn't end well.
Probably not, but you better have a fool proof way of keeping the controls out of enemy hands.
Because the last thing you want is to launch a fleet of armed drones into the sky, only to have them turn around and open fire.
And you don’t want them crashing into a mountain either because someone jammed the GPS.
Probably not, but you better have a fool proof way of keeping the controls out of enemy hands.
Because the last thing you want is to launch a fleet of armed drones into the sky, only to have them turn around and open fire.
And you don’t want them crashing into a mountain either because someone jammed the GPS.
They already got it. It’s called a drone.
The moron has no business hanging around the Brookings Institute. That’s a left wing outfit.
The defense industry would love to field a fleet of unmanned (extremely expensive) aircraft.
In reality the Marines only need things like some Harriers, Warthogs, and some fighters. Mostly the USMC needs machines that the overall USAF theater commander will have no use for. Otherwise they get stolen away.
And no robot or remote controlled plane will give a grunt the feeling that another Marine is overhead understanding the situation. I don’t care how good your sensors are, you won’t have the situational awareness that a human will have.
Wonder how much Lockheed paid this Obama general?
In 15 Years, Our Aircraft Won’t Need a Human in the Cockpit
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didn’t pop mec run that head line decades ago?
Late fifties experts were saying gun equipped planes were no longer needed.
then why have wars? aren’t we supposed to blow people and stuff up? It is called war for a reason.
Semper Fi
This might make war even more likely.
We already done did it 57 yaers ago, already
Like the same way they said fighters didn’t need cannons and left them off the F4 phantom? And then had to scramble to put them on when Vietnam came up? That military brain trust?
I imagine most people would guess there would be an increase in the use of drones.
It still seems to me that really expensive aircraft should have the pilot inside the plane.
Overhype as usual. Should read my decision paper for the Air Force 4 stars.
I recall that under Obama the Iranians were able to hack one of our most sophisticated drones and capture it. Humans can’t be hacked.
You can build aircraft at a more rapid rate than you can recruit and train pilots, then “grow” them into combat effective aviators.
Removing the human from the cockpit also removes a number of engineering constraints from the design criteria, and also removes one of the chief limitations to aircraft performance.
And every time you send a manned aircraft into harm’s way, mission planning necessarily has to consider a multitude of factors that collectively seek to minimize the odds of it ending with a military funeral. UCAVs? Not so much.