Slateman Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Coming to jihadists everywhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elessar78 Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 There's gotta be a movie where the best video-game player is recruited by the Navy to fly one of these things and he double-handedly wipes out the opposing Russian/AQ/Chinese/mercenary/alien air force, right? I mean after the military acquieses to his request to change the controls they developed to mimic that of his lowly console controller. All hail the everyman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 There's gotta be a movie where the best video-game player is recruited by the Navy to fly one of these things and he double-handedly wipes out the opposing Russian/AQ/Chinese/mercenary/alien air force, right? I mean after the military acquieses to his request to change the controls they developed to mimic that of his lowly console controller. All hail the everyman! The Last Starfighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Heh http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/01/23/pentagon-agency-wants-drones-to-hunt-in-packs-like-wolves/?tid=trending_strip_2 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host the gatherings in March for its Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program, it said this week. The major emphasis: Figuring out a way to move free of having a pilot operate only one drone with assistance from a sensor operator and a team of intelligence analysts through satellite links. “Just as wolves hunt in coordinated packs with minimal communication, multiple CODE-enabled unmanned aircraft would collaborate to find, track, identify and engage targets, all under the command of a single human mission supervisor,” said Jean-Charles Ledé, the program’s manager, in a statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 edit: Damn it, got hit by a bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s0crates Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 So how much money are wasting on the squids' self licking ice cream cone? http://news.usni.org/2013/06/26/navy-docs-reveal-uclass-minimum-ranges-and-maximum-costs The unit cost for the aircrafts, less research and development and operations and maintenance cost (known as recurring flyaway cost), “required to conduct a 600 nautical mile persistent orbit shall not exceed $150 million,” read the UCLASS KPP. Put into perspective, a single F/A-18E/F Super Hornet has a recurring flyaway cost of $66.9 million an aircraft, according to 2012 Navy budget documents. Unlike our congress, I always think of this kind of thing during budget debates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I had to get rid of mine after the neighbors complained it kept targeting their chihuahuas....no idea how that happened, probably a software glitch... Mine is in the garage behind a pile of junk I gotta go through. Boxes, old photos, useless furniture and some scrap wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 well we have done carrier landings and takeoffs (including touch and go) and mid-air refueling. gone largely autonomous ....next is dogfighting http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-08/armed-drones-seen-as-dogfight-ready-in-not-too-distant-future The X-47B’s mid-air refueling test last month showed how far autonomous aircraft have come, proving that the jet could home in on a tanker by itself for a fill-up. That capability means a combat drone could remain aloft for days instead of hours, Winship said -- a breakthrough that will change air-combat strategies and plane design. Without a pilot, flight duration can reach 50 hours, only limited by inspections of mechanical parts such as actuators, Winship said. Those systems could be designed to go 100 hours or more between checks, allowing for even longer missions. “You now have unlocked the potential of that airframe because it can now stay in the air measured in days, not measured in six or eight hours,” Winship said. “The power of unmanned is persistence.” Longer flights could reduce the need for air bases in allied territory from which to fly, he said. Deploying unmanned combat jets also could be quicker than manned aircraft because there’s no need to have search-and-rescue teams in place to retrieve downed pilots, Winship said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Dogfighting will be interesting. Eliminating on-board pilot, life support, comm etc. gets rid of a ton of weight and reduces the risk associated with engagement. As G-load limitations for fighters typically are based on human limits rather than equipment limits, could a supersonic-capable light multi role drone piloted by a good carrier-bound remote pilot hold its own in maneuvers against a manned enemy fighter, either before or after delivering payloads as a bomber? During the brief era when we have substantial numbers of operational drones and others don't, drone-to-drone dogfighting is not likely to occur often... for now. A drone that is lumbering by robot standards may be lethal to a human pilot if it can happily spin 20-G turns and/or attempt to suicidally bull-rush the other guy when necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 12th Commandment Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Dogfight with an Oculus Rift, I see it happening sooner rather than later and I see it working very well. Pilots are going the way of dodo and Camry drivers aren't that far behind. I give it 40 years. Time to get a Red Barchetta to have on hand for my nephew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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