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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
I would not want to be in a Civilian aircraft when any air combat is going on whether it be between drones and manned jets or jets and jets.
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I meant I wiuld not sit in a civilian plane even when drones are just navigating in the area even with no combat going on. When there is a malfunction in that damn thing, a software bug, whatever, there is nobody aboard to keep things under control. The operator does not sit at the end of a wire - he sits on the other side of a radiowave connection, or whatever they use for controlling it. With reliability of the things being like it currently is, I do not like so sit like a lame duck, without options if the thing goes into blind or amok mode.
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
I think our drones really need a "Self Destruct" for when they go down. Screw retrial.
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They already have a deletion feature for the sensible software and data aboard. Problem is - again, that feature still does not work reliably.