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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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