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To: TimF who wrote (36045)	7/24/2009 11:26:09 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"I was comparing drones to human piloted aircraft." Yes, that what I was talking about too. "But a remote pilot has less situational awareness than a local/in-plane pilot, and also there is the risk of jamming the control." You are referring to the current state-of-the-art, the current and the next generation. However, given the normal rate of increase in the power of computers, I expect that, increasingly, more and more situational awareness and even autonomy in operation will be effected. (It is not an 'either/or' situation exactly. One possible route for engineering I think, possible intermediate design step between the two paradigms, could be 'master/slave' systems... such as advanced human-flown aircraft - likely staying further behind the line-of-control - controlling swarms of remotely operated and or semi-autonomous drones in the combat space.)