All this talk about intercepting or spoofing control signals is ridiculous.
If electronic infiltration were even a remote possibility with computer pilots it would be almost as doable with real ones, since a human pilot gets targeting info, terrain maps, base and target locations, and mission objectives from ground or satellite locations already.
All the information you talk about is passive receiving. Active transmitting is the part that gets pilots shot down. (Hence radio silence) Remote controlled aircraft MUST be active to send information to the ground controller.
There have been allot of posts talking about robotic aircraft. The original post says
in part "Replacing the pilot by a ground controller "
I am assuming that ground controller means HUMAN.
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All this talk about intercepting or spoofing control signals is ridiculous. If electronic infiltration were even a remote possibility with computer pilots it would be almost as doable with real ones, since a human pilot gets targeting info, terrain maps, base and target locations, and mission objectives from ground or satellite locations already. All the information you talk about is passive receiving. Active transmitting is the part that gets pilots shot down. (Hence radio silence) Remote controlled aircraft MUST be active to send information to the ground controller. There have been allot of posts talking about robotic aircraft. The original post says in part "Replacing the pilot by a ground controller " I am assuming that ground controller means HUMAN.