http://www.fastcompany.com/1724775/arm-chair-top-guns-the-unmanned-x-47b-takes-its-first-flight
QuoteFragile human pilots are no longer needed. During combat, the loss of a military aircraft is a technological and fiscal blow, but the loss of a pilot is far worse--personally it's a loss, politically it's terrible, and financially it's a disaster, since pilots cost millions of dollars to train and keep flight-ready. Human pilots also require life support systems in aircraft, which increases their weight, and limits their flight envelope--without the pilot aboard, an X-47B-type aircraft could theoretically perform all sorts of crazy aerobatic maneuvers that a human pilot couldn't withstand.
The Cylons are coming!
BY YOUR COMMAND...
(there's a lot of "gamers" now...! iirc the USAF had/have local "pilots" and "specialists" for the "wet-work")
The title confused me. The XB-47 first flew over 50 years ago: (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/061024-F-1234S-001.jpg)
...and it had a whole crew.
Unmanned planes have their advantages, but it's usually the airframe, not the pilot, that limits their manueverability.
Yep that will be just fine until some enemy succesfully hacks into CC and turns a squadron of these back against us.
The Machines are going to take over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZM_0OtzO7o
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on February 07, 2011, 12:16:41 PM
The title confused me. The XB-47 first flew over 50 years ago: (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/061024-F-1234S-001.jpg)
...and it had a whole crew.
Unmanned planes have their advantages, but it's usually the airframe, not the pilot, that limits their manueverability.
I was thinking the same thing the title also confused me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ccKPSVQcFk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ccKPSVQcFk)