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Air Force Wants Technology That Will Let Drones Sense and Avoid Other Aircraft

Posted by samzenpus on from the spread-out dept.

coondoggie writes "With an eye toward letting drones share the nation's common airspace, the Air Force has set out to find the technology that will let unmanned aircraft sense and avoid other airplanes in flight. The ability to sense and avoid — common on all manned aircraft that fly the national airspace — is one of the trickier issues for drones which do not support such technology. It will be a major hurdle to jump as drone vendors and others press for common drone access to national airspace."

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  1. Strange by Dunbal · · Score: 3, Funny

    Defense contractors: But boss, I don't understand. We've been working 30 years and we've spent 100 billion dollars to get this thing to home in and hit any target you designate with a high probability, and now you want us to design one that does exactly the opposite? I suppose I could point you to one of our earlier test models...

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  2. Re:Avoid drones by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then no plane would ever land at a commercial airport with a TSA presence?

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