DARPA is developing the Otto pilot

[ryoder 1,590]

Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/17/robot_lands_a_737_iby_handi_on_a_dare_from_darpa/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om18cOWFL3Q

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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ryoder

Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/17/robot_lands_a_737_iby_handi_on_a_dare_from_darpa/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om18cOWFL3Q

Damn, United is even kicking the pilots off their planes.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[BillyVance 35]

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***Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/17/robot_lands_a_737_iby_handi_on_a_dare_from_darpa/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om18cOWFL3Q

Damn, United is even kicking the pilots off their planes.

It's not the pilots that need kicking off.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Phil1111 1,149]

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***Article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/17/robot_lands_a_737_iby_handi_on_a_dare_from_darpa/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om18cOWFL3Q

Damn, United is even kicking the pilots off their planes.

Petty much obsolete.

http://defense-update.com/20170410_have_raider.html

"Have Raider II" provides manned aircraft with autonomous wingmen.

The Have Raider program is part of the Air Force's Loyal Wingman project to create autonomous aircraft that are paired with manned aircraft and can take on delegated tasks. Have Raider I focused on having an F-16 autonomously leave its manned lead aircraft, conduct an air strike, then return to flying formation. Have Raider II went a step further, forcing the F-16's software make decisions based on operational parameters and then changing them as the situation was updated.

The program is broadly part of the Pentagon's Third Offset Strategy, which plans to use existing equipment in new ways to maintain a technological and numerical edge over countries such as China and Russia. The U.S. Air Force will shed more than a thousand F-16s as the F-35A enters service. While older, the F-16s have the advantage of being cheaper to fly and semi-disposable.

In the future, Loyal Wingman could see a single F-35 accompanied by one or more autonomous F-16s on a strike mission. As the aircraft near the target, autonomous F-16s could be dispatched to take out advanced air defense systems. Survivors could then join up with the F-35 and proceed to strike the main target. Future wingmen could be purpose-built stealthy drones, but for now the Air Force has plenty of F-16s that are free, the only cost being to convert them to operate autonomously.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a26028/f-16-drone-have-raider-ii/