US Navy Wants Its Drone to Land on a Carrier With a Mouse Click

[Wing_Z]

No joysticks and no pilot controlling it from a metal box somewhere. Just push-button operations and 3.4 million lines of software code...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/navy-wants-mouse-click-flying-for-its-carrier-based-drone/

[Allen]

I predict it will land in about 100 pices or so on the carrier.

[Roadburner440]

The Navy already tried this with the Firescout (a helicopter drone) on smaller ships. They had some base they would wheel out onto the flight deck for it to land on. There were a lot of close calls, and now they are back to the drawing board with it... I think not having a human at the controls is a bad idea. Especially when you have so many people in such a tight space.. Is almost just asking for something bad to go wrong.

[TARPSBird]

Whenever I read the term "seamless integration" I get nervous. ;)

[n4gix]

Conditionals have always made me nervous. When writing an OPs plan, I always avoided words such as "most likely, probably, if, and should..." :mixedsmi: