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More problems for the "Guys In Front"...

By The Armorer on September 13, 2006 | | Comments (5)

...as part of "Trolling for Dusty Week" today's installment is... oh-oh! Unmanned inflight refueling is a reality.

Lex? Dusty? Anyone? Anyone?

From the comments of Chap's post:

I submit that now there is absolutely NO reason to have a human pilot in an F-18. : -)

- They already take a cat shot with no hands
- They already land Mode 1 no hands
- They can now tank no hands (major airmanship challenge for a hornet/hornette pilot)
- JDAM falls off automatically
- All our enemies bury their fighters in sand dunes when we attack- no need for A-A.

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By Stormy Dragon on September 13, 2006 5:19 PM
As a comparison of Stealth to Top Gun will clearly show, our entertainment industry still requires having pilots in our military aircraft.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 13, 2006 5:22 PM
Snerk! Excellent point, Stormy! Lord knows we tolerate Hollywood's attempt to dictate policy as it is...
 
By cw4(ret)billt on September 13, 2006 9:38 PM
...and thereby implying that the sole remaining use for fixed wing jet jockeys is--entertainment? Heh. Do I hear an A-10 inbound?
 
By lex on September 14, 2006 3:53 PM
So long as all you sojers are content with robo-pilot rolling in on yer posit carrying heavy heat when the bad guys are "danger close," I'm OK with it. After all, my days of providing CAS are pretty much over. But if it was me trying to describe that the bad guys who were giving us so much grief while DivArty is doing God-knows-what were on the north end of the east-west road by the low hilltop - no, the other hilltop - I'd want a set of eyeballs that could take it all in at a glance and with some of that depth perception that they screen us for. You ever try to abort a drone when it's on final attack? It's ugly.
 
By John of Argghhh! on September 14, 2006 4:27 PM
Yay, scored both the Eagles!