Robot figher/bombers on the way
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20100513.aspx
It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 30 years. There'll be tremendous resistance from the pilots, but I think there's going to be even stronger pressures (economic and political) to implement more and more battle 'bots. What will also be interesting to see what the counter measures might be. I know little about such things, but wonder if it is possible to cheaply manufacture flak and high explosive artillery that sends out electro magnetic pulses to mess up the electronics on these increasingly complex systems. If it's simple to do so, (and again, I have no idea), it might make robotics too expensive or inherently obsolete early on.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next 30 years. There'll be tremendous resistance from the pilots, but I think there's going to be even stronger pressures (economic and political) to implement more and more battle 'bots. What will also be interesting to see what the counter measures might be. I know little about such things, but wonder if it is possible to cheaply manufacture flak and high explosive artillery that sends out electro magnetic pulses to mess up the electronics on these increasingly complex systems. If it's simple to do so, (and again, I have no idea), it might make robotics too expensive or inherently obsolete early on.
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