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> Navy drones fly autonomously with the planes’ robot brain making the split second calculations necessary to conduct an arrested landing on the deck of a movin
by lukifer 13y ago
> Navy drones fly autonomously with the planes’ robot brain making the split second calculations necessary to conduct an arrested landing on the deck of a moving ship.
Is anyone else a little freaked out that this is one more step towards aerial ED-209's?
- netcan 13y agoMe. A combination of freaked out, and feeling silly for being freaked out. Somehow, aerial drones seem like less of a stretch than ground drones. I'm surprised that tanks aren't being replaced by drone tanks. All the same reasoning applies. I think the first time land battles happen between drones, we'll get the message.
- davidw 13y agoI would think that it'd be easier to mess with communications to and from the tank. Or that they'd get stuck in a valley or something where radio communications aren't very good. Also, navigating on the ground is trickier than flying in some ways, depending on the terrain.
- Jtsummers 13y agoThey've also got drones tested for mid-air refueling. Work is being done on both having the drones hook up to be refueled, and for drone refuelers. IIRC, the last test got them flying in formation correctly, but they didn't actually connect the hose.