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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by _Codemonkeyism on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:10AM (#17877364)
My gut feeling is the US got lucky, with a high chance of drones after the F-35. France (Rafaele) and Germany (Eurofigher) might not be so lucky and need another manned fighter in between. UK with a F-35 / Eurofighter mix not clear to me.
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by robin_reala on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:18AM (#17877421)
BAE’s building the Tempest for the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Tempest
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by r00fus on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:54AM (#17877712)
From das Wiki: "Tempest will be able to fly unmanned, and use swarming technology to control drones. It will incorporate artificial intelligence deep learning and possess directed-energy weapons.[7][8]"

Really? We can't even get self driving cars right and BAE thinks we can have a fighter with lasers that controls a swarm of drones? Going to be an epic letdown when it first rolls off the line.

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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by Skunkleton on Thursday August 30, 2018 @12:17PM (#17877905)
Unmanned does not mean self-flying. And even if it did, self driving is a much harder problem than self flying. You have rent a swarm of drones today if you wanted to.
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by r00fus on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:14PM (#17880834)
I'm pretty sure they mean like Predator drones not your COTS hoverbots. Doing all that in a tactical/adversarial situation means the likely of catastrophic failure is high.
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by Skunkleton on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:27PM (#17881715)
What do you mean? Are you saying we lack the technology to fly drones in formations?
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by r00fus on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:29PM (#17886868)
Do you think formation is all that's required in battle? That sounds like a very sunny-day scenario.
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by 15155 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:55PM (#17881858)
> We can't even get self driving cars right

Air vehicles are substantially easier to make autonomous than road-borne vehicles that must intermingle with massive numbers of hazards, unpredictable circumstances, laws to abide by, life to preserve.

Airspace is, by and large, empty. For where it isn't: it's strictly controlled by other means.

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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by hinkley on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:01PM (#17878353)
First demo: two drones will fly into the laser beam, roast themselves, and crash land on something embarrassing.
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development by noir_lord on Thursday August 30, 2018 @01:34PM (#17878766)
> crash land on something embarrassing.

These days that's the whole of the UK (and I say that as someone from England).

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