Prophet Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/17/1348247.shtml a link to a Network World blog post on the world's first unmanned attack squadron. The US is deploying a full squadron of combat drones to Iraq this week. These armed and remotely controlled robots can be manipulated from on the ground in the field, or via satellite from thousands of miles away. "The MQ-9 Reaper is the Air Force's first hunter-killer unmanned aircraft. It is the big brother to the highly successful and sometimes controversial Predator aircraft, which General Atomics said this week had flown over 300,000 flight hours, with over 80% of that time spent in combat. The company said Predator series aircraft have flown an average of 8,200 hours per month over the past six months while maintaining the highest operational readiness rates in the U.S. military aircraft inventory. The MQ-9 Reaper is twice as fast as the Predator - it has a 900-horsepower turbo-prop engine, compared to the 119-horsepower Predator engine - and can carry far more ordnance - 14 Hellfire missiles as opposed to two."
Ender Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 It will take time - to clean out a place where that wechicles are based. hopefully, it will be a better target for a g2a missiles with it's 900 horsepower hot engine. WE DON'T WANT A WAR.
Force_Feedback Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Cheaters... Yup, trying to make war look clean, hahaha, hypocrytes. But, eh it's possible, so why not, killing people with machines that can be destroyed without human casualties is good, right?..... I can already see a generation of people coming thinking war is fun & games. So what if you see bodies on a screen, you're safe in some bunker, the UCAV you pilot is 30000 feet up, and the locals have to clean the mess you made. Yay, 12 hellfires. At least your mum won't sue the government if your brains are scattered over some square meters of dirt. Now they should make 'cheap' artillery launched SAMs that can hit UAVs, without needing to have demonic rocket boosters to propel them all the way up. Creedence Clearwater Revival:worthy:
Force_Feedback Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 That would be plain coolness, no argument here. Creedence Clearwater Revival:worthy:
Ender Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Now they should make 'cheap' artillery launched SAMs that can hit UAVs, without needing to have demonic rocket boosters to propel them all the way up. I think some infantry support vechikles, like BMP-3, will set it down. and a bird will be less suckessfull than a predator, since it larger and havier. WE DON'T WANT A WAR.
rogue_blade Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 now all they have to to is make it autonomous [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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