The Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration Program: A New Dawn for Naval Aviation?

Agree.

The more "smarts" one can put into the most exposed, "forward" piece of gear, be it UCAS, JDAMs, or other semi-autonomous weaponry, the less we must expose our most valuable assets - our folks.

Not to mention that JDAMs make lousy POWs. g

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The Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration Program: A New
Dawn for Naval Aviation?
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
http://www.csbaonline.org/4Publicati...nned_Comba.pdf

I don't think manned aircraft will be eliminated any time soon, but I think
unmanned vehicles are going to perform more and more missions over the next
several decades. I think we'll have an air wing that's over 50% unmanned by
2020-2025.

R / John