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The DBM software could help meet the needs of the Navy's planned new drone warplane. Last summer the sailing branch began landing and launching a pair of Northrop Grumman X-47B test drones aboard aircraft carriers off the East Coast.
The X-47B is supposed to lead to a combat-capable drone known as the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Aerial Surveillance and Strike system, or UCLASS. The Navy wants stealthy, armed, jet-powered UCLASS drones on its 11 flattops by the 2020s.
Originally conceived of as a modest robotic recon plane able to carry some small weapons like the Air Force's propeller-driven Predator and Reaper drones, UCLASS could evolve into a powerful and heavily-armed fighter as big as a 40-ton F-14 Tomcat — the Navy's classic Cold War jet.
originally posted by: lostbook
The US military is working on having robotic fighter jets in the air soon. The plan is to have armed Drone type vehicles in the skies taking on the enemy. Some of the benefits are: no fuel needed, there's no need to have a base nearby, no loss of human life, & cost effective.
Yeah, no one saw this coming! However, I wanna know what ATS thinks?
originally posted by: Psynic
originally posted by: lostbook
The US military is working on having robotic fighter jets in the air soon. The plan is to have armed Drone type vehicles in the skies taking on the enemy. Some of the benefits are: no fuel needed, there's no need to have a base nearby, no loss of human life, & cost effective.
Yeah, no one saw this coming! However, I wanna know what ATS thinks?
"Cost effective"? That's almost humorous.
"No nearby base required"? And that's a good thing?
"No fuel needed"? Eh?
"No loss of human life"? Not the pilot, anyway.
See 'Terminator'.
originally posted by: lostbook
originally posted by: Psynic
originally posted by: lostbook
The US military is working on having robotic fighter jets in the air soon. The plan is to have armed Drone type vehicles in the skies taking on the enemy. Some of the benefits are: no fuel needed, there's no need to have a base nearby, no loss of human life, & cost effective.
Yeah, no one saw this coming! However, I wanna know what ATS thinks?
"Cost effective"? That's almost humorous.
"No nearby base required"? And that's a good thing?
"No fuel needed"? Eh?
"No loss of human life"? Not the pilot, anyway.
See 'Terminator'.
No loss of human life "on the side of the US", but I see what you are saying. However, the other points remain valid.
originally posted by: Psynic
And how you can consider a multi billion dollar project "cost effective" for a country that can't afford to look after it's own citizens is beyond me.