F16 Drone!

[Ron in SoCal]

http://video.boeing.com/services/player/bcpid1173939806001?bckey=AQ~~%2cAAAAukPAlqE~%2coAV q1qtdRjwBrIkHYj2MSytJiEK9s5fy&bclid=0&bctid=2684464741001

Look out, bad guys...:bur2:

[waynieZ]

Amazing. imagine the possibilities.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

too bad its just being used for target training. Imagine being in a dog fight with a guy sitting on his couch 200 miles away.

[Ketzer]

too bad its just being used for target training. Imagine being in a dog fight with a guy sitting on his couch 200 miles away.

Imagine being in a dogfight with an 11 year old on his couch and being owned...

[Build-It-Break-it]

Skynet is taking over!!

[130fe]

They have been doing this for years there with F-4s at Tyndall/Holloman, guess they are running out of them. A lot of times these drones are used in test missions for as targets for tests.

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/where-have-all-the-phantoms-gone-96320627/?no-ist

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Skynet is taking over!!

"the chair is against the wall"

[Spiffav8]

Imagine being in a dogfight with an 11 year old on his couch and being owned...

At the rate things are going these days, that's not far from the trooth. From what I've heard the software in the F/A-18E/F is insane. It won't accept any inputs from the pilot that will exceed the limitations of the aircraft or that would cause it to do something weird like tumble. I even read an article where a pilot lost control of one and "let go" of the controls... the airplane righted it self and then the pilot took over again. Imagine all that combined with a remote pilot using nothing more than an XBOX or PlayStation controller!

Hmmm..... how do I get that job? Pretty sure I could work from home.

[Sieg]

Hmmm..... how do I get that job? Pretty sure I could work from home.

Uh huh!

I was just talking with a friend who's a flight instructor for Insitu and it sounds like it would be slightly entertaining.

[96z28ss]

I hope the technology stays in the US and isn't sold to other countries.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Well they always said that the limitations of the F-22 was the pilots body.


http://www.writeups.org/img/fiche/5246.jpg

[Spiffav8]

Uh huh!

I was just talking with a friend who's a flight instructor for Insitu and it sounds like it would be slightly entertaining.

I know a few guys at Insitu. This kind of tech is a long ways from a ScanEagle. I get a laugh out of how many of their operators think they are pilots. Similarities, but still different worlds.

[Sieg]

I know a few guys at Insitu. This kind of tech is a long ways from a ScanEagle. I get a laugh out of how many of their operators think they are pilots. Similarities, but still different worlds.
I know..........Pro Touring vs Pro Tinkering. Still amazing tech to us civilian types. :D

[Vince@Meanstreets]

At the rate things are going these days, that's not far from the trooth. From what I've heard the software in the F/A-18E/F is insane. It won't accept any inputs from the pilot that will exceed the limitations of the aircraft or that would cause it to do something weird like tumble. I even read an article where a pilot lost control of one and "let go" of the controls... the airplane righted it self and then the pilot took over again. Imagine all that combined with a remote pilot using nothing more than an XBOX or PlayStation controller!

Hmmm..... how do I get that job? Pretty sure I could work from home.

haaaa taking out a MiG-35 in your pj's would be cool.

[Spiffav8]

haaaa taking out a MiG-35 in your pj's would be cool.

Right! Sitting on the couch munching on a bag of chips, drinking Mtn. Dew..maybe even talking on the phone all while splashing a bogie.

:Tomcat:

[captainofiron]

thats pretty nuts

[NOPANTS68]

Not sure if any of you watch Kroll show but this was a funny skit they did about this very subject.

http://youtu.be/lF1mx-Dcek8