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| X47B takes fuel from "Omega tanker" (Northrop) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
The news below shows clearly which way the military aviation is going to. Robot airplanes will replace manned pilots in many missions. If Northrop will put outset of robot air refueling system for UCAV:s, there might be more plans to make lethal military power more lethal for any operator in military forces. I think that Navy has been already tested robot versions of P-8 “Poseidon” ASW aircraft and other tactical systems like command posts.
The automatization of those long enduring platforms makes those long-term missions more comfortable for all operators of the navy. Because that set offer is Northrop we might think that there will be also robot-version of B-2 and B-52 bombers. That will be the very dramatic thing for nuclear forces because robot planes can be airborne even months if their technology endures for that flight. And almost every other airplane can be operated as a robot very easy way.
The operators must just change programs in airplanes computers to the same kind of programs, what are used in “Predator” drones. Those drones might look like manned airplanes with chairs and cockpits, but there will no need for pilots. The use of this kind of airplane might be in assault roles in the situation like Afghanistan.
Those operators are sitting on the chair in some room, and if their working day ends in the middle of flights, operators just go home and evening shift will take a hand of those robots, like in some factories. Like some media persons say that is the very unfair way to fight against the enemy. Bur war is the very unfair thing, and the military commanders choice between own men or some enemies when they are calculating victims, their choice will be that better to kill enemies than making own casualties.
And there is one thing, what supports the use of unmanned combat vehicles in those operations is that drone operator has less psychiatric problems than men who fought in those mountains. If we are talking about real war, the question is who shoots first, and war is not any game with honor.
Robot aircraft have many advantages for piloted vehicles. If U.S military losses drones in some missions, the losses might never become public, because there will be not human victims, and that’s why those robot operations are easy to cover. And the most important thing about creating robot warplanes is that their pilot doesn’t need very expensive training, and all of those drone operations might be undercover.
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