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Old 04-24-2014, 09:07 PM
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Pentagon plans to replace flight crews with 'full-time' robots - Washington Times
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Old 04-25-2014, 11:03 AM
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So they'll do a great job like the current flight planners right? Or as good of a job. I'm not worried.
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This would take a long time and a lot of money to implement. And this would be the epitome of ivory tower academic thinking colliding with the real operational world.

Spending the money would require some very long-term thinking...I suspect the services would rather just sustain current ops for the time being. Something like this might well be built into future aircraft but I seriously doubt that any retrofits will be in the works, and least until we're all retired.
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If this surprises anyone, you've been living under a rock. They're talking about DARPA, and by DARPA standards, this is one of their least imaginative projects.

10 Cool DARPA Projects In Development - InformationWeek

5 Projects You Won't Believe the US Government Is Working On | Cracked.com
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