The End of an Era: US Navy is giving up on fighter pilots & turning to drones

SSI01 · 04-19-15, 09:25 AM

Trust me, in a few years they'll even be able to dogfight - a drone can pull a g-load that would kill a human pilot or cause serious permanent injury. The only use I can see for biological units in the future is to pilot the COD onto and off the ship now and then.

What's Tom Cruise going to do when fighter pilots will be upstaged by a room full of overweight kids with pimples and coke-bottle glasses who can fly a computerized drone like nobody's business?

There is a bright side, though - the robots don't get drunk, miss movement, ask embarrassing questions or wear adult diapers and drive across several state lines to assault spouses of other astronauts (former aviators). Also they don't get involved in events that result in police calls and accusations of sexual assault.

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04-19-15, 09:25 AM	#1
SSI01 Loader Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 88 Downloads: 56 Uploads: 0	Trust me, in a few years they'll even be able to dogfight - a drone can pull a g-load that would kill a human pilot or cause serious permanent injury. The only use I can see for biological units in the future is to pilot the COD onto and off the ship now and then. What's Tom Cruise going to do when fighter pilots will be upstaged by a room full of overweight kids with pimples and coke-bottle glasses who can fly a computerized drone like nobody's business? There is a bright side, though - the robots don't get drunk, miss movement, ask embarrassing questions or wear adult diapers and drive across several state lines to assault spouses of other astronauts (former aviators). Also they don't get involved in events that result in police calls and accusations of sexual assault.