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Ron in SoCal 10-08-2014 06:41 AM
F16 Drone!
 
http://video.boeing.com/services/pla...=2684464741001

Look out, bad guys...:bur2:

waynieZ 10-08-2014 08:38 AM
Amazing. imagine the possibilities.

Vince@Meanstreets 10-08-2014 10:22 AM
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 10-08-2014 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab (Post 573169)
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 10-08-2014 11:23 AM
Skynet is taking over!!

130fe 10-08-2014 11:50 AM
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-...320627/?no-ist

Vince@Meanstreets 10-08-2014 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Build-It-Break-it (Post 573180)
Skynet is taking over!!
"the chair is against the wall"

Spiffav8 10-08-2014 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Ketzer (Post 573177)
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 10-08-2014 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Spiffav8 (Post 573193)
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 10-08-2014 02:32 PM
I hope the technology stays in the US and isn't sold to other countries.

Vince@Meanstreets 10-08-2014 02:36 PM
Well they always said that the limitations of the F-22 was the pilots body.


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

Spiffav8 10-08-2014 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Sieg (Post 573197)
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 10-08-2014 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Spiffav8 (Post 573209)
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 10-08-2014 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Spiffav8 (Post 573193)
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 10-08-2014 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab (Post 573213)
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 10-08-2014 03:12 PM
thats pretty nuts

NOPANTS68 10-08-2014 03:12 PM
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


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