The Boeing Airpower Teaming System is the company's first unmanned system developed in Australia and designed for global defense customers.Boeing
NBC: Robotic fighter jets could soon join military pilots on combat missions. Here's why.
The fast-flying drones would scout enemy locations and draw fire that otherwise would be directed at human pilots.
Military pilots may soon have a new kind of wingman to depend upon: not flesh-and-blood pilots but fast-flying, sensor-studded aerial drones that fly into combat to scout enemy targets and draw enemy fire that otherwise would be directed at human-piloted aircraft.
War planners see these robotic wingmen as a way to amplify air power while sparing pilots' lives and preventing the loss of sophisticated fighter jets, which can cost more than $100 million apiece.
"These drone aircraft are a way to get at that in a more cost-effective manner, which I think is really a game-changer for the Air Force," says Paul Scharre, director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
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UAVs are far far superior to manned aircraft. That we still use humans is more surprising to me than anything else. AI UAVs can operate longer (no sleep needed), don't need a cockpit/human and can carry a larger payload and/or be smaller, can operate at far greater G forces, at higher altitude, ...
But
Machines are amoral (not immoral)..
Any morality needs to be encoded. And the expenditure of morality will be huge and transparent and in the aggregate not the individual machine. The code that all share. A brave new world indeed... onto the abyss with eyes open :D
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
Awesome tech! Will change a lot in aerial warfare. DARPA and Spunk works have been working on this for years.
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