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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 28 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

It's a "fighter"? Are we imagining drones dogfighting? What's it's main target?

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago

Some of the constraints imposed on fighter jets is life support and G-force limitations for the pilot. Removing the pilot and allowing an on-board computer handle things in the moment (e.g. dogfights) gives an unmanned jet the upper hand.

It's obviously a step toward completely automated war machines, but that's the justification for the "unmanned fighter jet"

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 1 points 6 hours ago

nah, you're right, it's clearly delivering medical supplies.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 38 points 14 hours ago

Defense budgets.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

CCAs or collaborative combat aircraft are the new hotness in military aviation. Basically smaller unmanned fighter jets that work alongside a traditional manned fighter. The idea is that you can have maybe 4 or 5 fighter jets worth of capability but only one of them has a human pilot on board. So the manned fighter can hang back and tell a farther forward one to fire a missile. Is it a wunderwaffen? Is it a boondoggle? Idk man

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

Which one get's to carry the spool of fibre optic?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 13 points 15 hours ago

probably brown people in west asia

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

Maybe Amazon next?

[–] xylol@leminal.space 3 points 12 hours ago
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago