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Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: steve...
Date: January 09, 2017 07:20PM
The pentagon is testing small autonomous drones that work as a group without human control. In one test, they launched 100 from three F-18 jets.

They also talk about other autonomous machines that are being tested: CBS 60 minutes



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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 09, 2017 07:59PM
Sounds like a bad Sci Fi film plot to me.




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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: MrNoBody
Date: January 09, 2017 08:54PM
sounds like DARPA's Gremlins Project.
The key word being "autonomous", soulless soldiers.


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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: WHiiP
Date: January 09, 2017 09:15PM
I "think" I like it. . . . Time, might tell . . .


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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: GeneL
Date: January 10, 2017 06:27AM
Unconfortably like the story line in the movie series "Terminator."

I'm actually surprised that no one has already commented about that.

But, why worry?


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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: DP
Date: January 10, 2017 06:39AM
It's the future anyway. Fighter pilots' days are numbered.




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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: gabester
Date: January 10, 2017 06:42AM
These things will not be very useful in, say, a nuclear conflict. EMP / HERF guns also will be able to take their toll as will plain old fashioned munitions. Gotta teach 'em to fly right before you can program them for evasive action.



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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: DP
Date: January 10, 2017 06:47AM
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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: jh
Date: January 10, 2017 07:14AM
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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: Lizabeth
Date: January 10, 2017 07:57AM
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DP
It's the future anyway. Fighter pilots' days are numbered.

No, they'll still be around...just not in planes. I don't think they've developed a way for them to land themselves yet. Landing is the issue right now according to the nephew who flies them for the military.
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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: January 10, 2017 07:58AM
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gabester
These things will not be very useful in, say, a nuclear conflict. EMP / HERF guns also will be able to take their toll as will plain old fashioned munitions. Gotta teach 'em to fly right before you can program them for evasive action.
gabester.... um... most all weather military weapons systems are designed to operate in an NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) environment. And most military weapon systems are hardened against EMP. Sure, prototypes are usually built without that hardening, but production systems ? Hard To Kill.
Source: Designs I did in the 80's and 90's.
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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: max
Date: January 10, 2017 08:05AM
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Lizabeth
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DP
It's the future anyway. Fighter pilots' days are numbered.

No, they'll still be around...just not in planes. I don't think they've developed a way for them to land themselves yet. Landing is the issue right now according to the nephew who flies them for the military.
Mot really an issue.
Navy has drones landing and taking off all by themselves for a while.
It is just not a critical aspect in this case.....
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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: January 10, 2017 08:06AM



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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: January 10, 2017 08:54AM
max- the landing point is about Predators. Most mission losses take place at landing. Underimproved airstrips, etc... Navy drones land into a net. They still have losses. Despite Hollywood, VTOL drones with day long loiter times and armament are not a thing. (Oh yeah, and landing VTOL on a carrier or cruiser ? WAY tough.)

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Re: Anyone see the drone swarm on 60 Minutes?
Posted by: Carnos Jax
Date: January 10, 2017 03:07PM
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DP
It's the future anyway. Fighter pilots' days are numbered.

Kinda a related note...the U.S. Air Force is having a hard time recruiting officers to pilot their drones. So much so, they've just started their first class of enlisted pilots.
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