I think that the future of manned aircraft is limited. With drones gaining the ground in warfare, other countries will surely join in the game.

This leads to the concept of whoever is utilizing the drones best will win the war.

How do you limit your enemies drones?

Why with an air superiority drone that is designed to shoot down other drones better than any fighter can.

I think we will be seeing Air superiority drones shortly within the next few years and I am sure it is under development as Black projects as we speak.

No doubt. Now all they have to do is recruit a bunch of video game (professional players) to operate these drones. The Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster will be plastered all over the Xbox, PS3, and Wii, sites.

Those soldiers will be trained to think that the drone they are operating, (that is killing people), is naught but a video game with some "awesome" graphics thus removing more inhibition when pulling that trigger.

Thanks for the heads up on the book. You guys should also read a book called 'wired for war' I saw a lecture by the author and it was extremely fascinating.

PS: Side notes
I remember when I played BF2 I was a master in the attack helo. I was able to down aircraft using my TV guided missile while single handily my helo was uncontrolled (seat switcher hehe). I was so good, that I still have people emailing me to come back into the game as they have yet to get anyone that good.

Also I remember that there was a guy who used to play similar flight sim games, never really took school seriously and he tried out for the air force and they made him UAV flight instructor.

Obviously. The greatest limitation to aircraft are, in fact, the pilots.

You really down with all this war stuff? It bores the crap out of me. By the way, we never mastered flight. Just like we never harnessed nuclear power. Or oil exploration. I see no reason why anything could possibly go wrong....


Hmmm, let's see. A political system consisting of two shill parties, both in the rectum of the zionist military industrial complex....bent on personal, and world, subjugation of their enemies, past, present, and most importantly, future. Remember 911? You call that 'air superiority'? Looked like a drone to me. I am just in love with the great humanistic developments, since then. Is this 'the professional'? Or some new version....? Have you considered running for POTUS yet?

A-and using the internet logs, which they control, as primary fuel for war. Nope, I just can't see anything going wrong with the premise of 'air superiority'.

Thanks for making me want to throw my gonads away.

The future is just like XBOX360. As long as WE have the best players, we win. Other wise we are screwed.

Edit: Forgot to add. If we Loose, there is no restart.

Small yield EMP's and Duck hunters posted up at the landing & launch sites. Game Over....Scary version? Enemies gaining control of said drones...Takashi Miike version? The Drones themselves go on windows blue screen of death mode due to a virus and anything with a heat signature becomes a target indicator as the drones unleash hell until they run out of fuel.

The scary thing with drones is the fact that you don't have to worry about a pilot blacking out or reding out due to g's, that means your only limitations would be physics , propulsion systems thermodynamics and aerodynamics.

In theory there would be no way for a manned aircraft to even compete with a fully realized drone.

Unarmed air superiority drones. Hmm all that comes to mind is

Macross Plus X-9