Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Future Of Armed Unmanned Aircraft Will Always Have A "Man In The Loop"


Army Wants 'Man In The Loop' On Armed UAS Ops -- Aol Defense

Washington: The future of armed unmanned aircraft will remain more man than machine, at least for members of the Army and Marine Corps.

"We will always have a man in the loop," Col. Stewart Hatfield, chief of the lethality branch in the Army's unmanned requirements shop, said today at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's annual conference here.

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My Comment: We are a long way from not having a "man in the loop" .... but one must not forget that having UAV's flying around with missiles was a pipe dream among many only 10 years ago.

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