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Somehow, I also can't feature myself as a passenger on some airlifter (C-5, C-141 etc.) being piloted from the ground...
it's scary enough flying in something like the 'fly by wire' stuff the airline are using.....a lightning strike wipes out the controls and there is no hardwire control.
I just finished reading Wired for War, and the author said he interviewed a AF officer that said they put the x45 off because it would be superior to manned flights, and the pilots just couldnt stand that.
Now U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wants more UAVs. Already he has said that the next generation of fighter planes -- the F-35 that took decades to develop at a cost of more than half-a-billion dollars each -- will be the last manned fighter aircraft.
If flying robot fighters ever become intelligent enough to be used in combat what makes anyone certain they will never switch sides, just stop fighting or realize that the humans sending them to die are the real enemy.
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