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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by pjc50 on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:28AM (#37557547)
The plane-sized drones are capable of some autonomous operation. It may or may not be possible to spoof that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

The smaller drones are not usually autonomous. See the Starlink alleged incident.

Inertial guidance is popular but very expensive to do accurately with laser gyros. I'm surprised there haven't been more "terrain following" systems.

There's probably always going to be a continuum between manned and unmanned platforms, and a discussion about SEAD.

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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by lostlogin on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:27PM (#37559166)
> See the Starlink alleged incident.

Ukraine says it happened and Musk does too - is ‘alleged’ needed?

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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by lostlogin on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:53PM (#37561111)
But one says ‘I did it’ and the other says ‘he did it’.

What other agenda could be going on here? They are both hiding some Russian capabilities from us?

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Re:US Military Asks for Help Locating Missing F-35 Fighter Jet by t0mas88 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:26PM (#37574079)
Depends on your definition of expensive. In comparison with other military hardware, inertial navigation systems aren't that expensive. They're also used in large numbers in civil aviation.
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