Jet guys look out, that will be taking your job. 
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what's the name of this plane?
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When you look at how the Navy has been going towards saving money, reducing risks, downsizing, etc. it makes sense. (At least from their point of view.) They love the idea of ships that take fewer people to operate, technology that takes people out of harms way. Why risk losing a pilot and aircraft when we can send in a drone that can fire the same weapons and all that. Its going to be an interesting transition period.
lowflier03 said:
The reason, in my opinion, is summed up pretty nicely in fiction...The Terminator series, to be exact...granted, it's a movie, but truth is often stranger than fiction, and I've always found the Terminator movies to be the most (ideologically) frightening movies ever made...I don't want to see that type of situation ever occur, so for that reason, I don't support UAVs featuring combat capabilities of any type.
Pilots will never go away. The way I see it is the people who will be slected to "fly" the UAV's come from Primary and in order to get people going to Primary with the hopes of flying is if they have manned planes. Otherwise they won't have a wide pool of people to select from.
Well, at least in the AF that's where they are getting their UAV "pilots" in the future...
Well, at least in the AF that's where they are getting their UAV "pilots" in the future...
I wont say that I agree with the whole ideology of a UAV military, that is just how the Navy has been thinking lately. My feelings can pretty much be summed up along the lines of...
Sometimes war is a necessary thing, however wars are fought for a reason/ideal, a reason that is so strong that you are willing to sacrifice lives for it. When you get to the point where human lives are no longer in the equation, war becomes something else entirely. I think if we ever get to the point where we are no longer willing to sacrifice lives for what we believe, then war can/will become a common solution to every problem. From there I think we would be in for a downward spiral and who knows where it would end.
Sometimes war is a necessary thing, however wars are fought for a reason/ideal, a reason that is so strong that you are willing to sacrifice lives for it. When you get to the point where human lives are no longer in the equation, war becomes something else entirely. I think if we ever get to the point where we are no longer willing to sacrifice lives for what we believe, then war can/will become a common solution to every problem. From there I think we would be in for a downward spiral and who knows where it would end.
Soooo ....... Who are you goin' drinking with on Liberty .... ???
Certainly NOT this guy .... ????
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Certainly NOT this guy .... ????
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Fly Navy is on the Air Warriors Fast Response Insertion Team. He had the duty, so he was just waiting around for questions like yours.nyy said:
You will.nittany03 said:
No matter how often you say it. These things are in the notional airwings of the future. Nearly ten years ago I heard the CNO say that the F-35 (then JSF) would likely be the last manned tactical aircraft the Navy buys. You see anything on the drawing boards post F-35 or Rhino? As for the guys that operate them, you no sooner have to be a pilot then a NASA controller for a Space Shuttle mission does. I'd say NFOs, whether they like it or not, are more likely to become future UCAV "pilots". Especially since one of the most talked about mission profiles has them controlled from the air by Command and Control types of aircraft. Can you say Hummer?