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2020-06-14 Science & Technology

US developing powerful drone to combat fighter jets

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Posted by Fred 2020-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Well, the picture is a General Atomics product that the USAF has not bought. The XQ-58, OTOH...

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-14 01:52|| 2020-06-14 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 So, what's all those Patriot missiles doing?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-14 07:18|| 2020-06-14 07:18|| Front Page Top

#3 In twenty years the US Air Force will be predominantly drone, and it will be manipulated by 18 years old. Then it will be time to phase=out the Air Force Academy.

Posted by b 2020-06-14 09:35|| 2020-06-14 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 Neh, somebody will (somebody probably already did) invent jammers for operator to drone communication.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-14 09:54|| 2020-06-14 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Do you think they will be remote controlled vs autonomous with limited command control and mission objectives uploaded on the ground?

Old news

Posted by Knuckles Javimble6283 2020-06-14 16:31|| 2020-06-14 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 ^We're still the best computer on Earth.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-14 17:39|| 2020-06-14 17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 But not the fastest and learning takes time. Nor, in the American case, expendable.

Posted by Knuckles Javimble6283 2020-06-14 17:49|| 2020-06-14 17:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Nor, in the American case, expendable.

Well, I can't argue with that

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-06-14 17:58|| 2020-06-14 17:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Until a big one comes and then everybody finds they are expendable.

Posted by Knuckles Javimble6283 2020-06-14 18:12|| 2020-06-14 18:12|| Front Page Top

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