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05-04-2011, 02:10 PM
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The days of manned military flights is ending
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05-04-2011, 02:31 PM
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Good, a less costly way to do the same job.
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05-04-2011, 05:31 PM
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Seems premature, I would think a good investment I'm jamming tech and satelite countermeasures would cripple a piloless system
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05-04-2011, 09:44 PM
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I have heard for quite a while that the newest generation of jets coming out now will be the last to be piloted by a human - because the plane is capable of so much more than a human body can take in terms of gees.
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05-04-2011, 09:50 PM
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 They're a long way from eliminating the pilot completely. Maybe in 50 years or more.
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05-05-2011, 08:41 AM
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05-05-2011, 09:12 AM
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The Terminator movies are lurking in the shadows.....
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05-05-2011, 09:42 AM
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We will continue to use drones, but not exclusively for some time. There is NO way, with current technology, to replace a human's insight into how a machine is acting. Yes, there are plenty of sensors on board these planes, but only a human can decide what the small vibration may be.
I work in a highly automated field, and humans are used to monitor sound, not just by use of a microphone either.
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05-05-2011, 12:32 PM
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Bad idea makes wars to cheap. Nothing good will come out of this.
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05-05-2011, 02:19 PM
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Yet another episode . . . "A Taste of Armageddon"
Memorable quotes for "Star Trek" A Taste of Armageddon (1967) Scotty: The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank. Spock: Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder. Scotty: Aye, the haggis is in the fire for sure.
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05-05-2011, 02:59 PM
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every time I read one of these articles I think of "A Taste of Armageddon"
not sure what is better for civilization, people getting killed by faceless drowns or having to send our military into harms way. I worry removing the human element will make war so cheap and easy it will increase not decrease. standing at the hot end of a drowns muzzle is not a place I want to be, I'd rather take my chances with a living breathing soldier pointing a weapon at me... if I had to choose.
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05-05-2011, 06:59 PM
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OTOH, I hear reports about Qaddafi shelling ships that come in to try to round up the severly injured and I think 'jeez, I wish we had some drones up there that could spot the source of that artillery and mortar fire and obliterate it.' It's a strange world we're moving into.
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