Rise of the Robot Squadrons

Velcroman1 writes 'Taking a cue from the Terminator films, the US Navy is developing unmanned drones that network together and operate in 'swarms.' Predator drones have proven one of the most effective — and most controversial — weapons in the military arsenal. And now, these unmanned aircraft are talking to each other. Until now, each drone was controlled remotely by a single person over a satellite link. A new tech, demoed last week by NAVAIR, adds brains to those drones and allows one person to control a small squadron of them in an intelligent, semiautonomous network.'

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Re:Well that explains the Starcraft II delay....

[Comboman]

And for those of you who are FUDding about "skynet" -- 99.9% of the UAVs in the sky are ISR-only, like the Protoss Observer, not weapon platforms. And the ones that do have weapons don't fire at anything without a human issuing at least two orders, and that human is under observation himself. Please stop the FUD. The only functions these craft do autonomously are piloting

As the 9/11 hijackers so aptly proved, any plane in the wrong hands is a weapon.

Re:On Skynet

[Anonymous Coward]

after unmanned drones flew into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 2001 they knew for sure that they were onto something. oh right, some Arab dude who didn't know fuck-all about flying an airplane according to his instructor performed an extremely difficult corkscrew maneuver and perfectly hit the building. yeah, sure. just like JFK was hit by a magic bullet from a balcony despite the testimony of 56 witnesses. right. wake up people. seriously.