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

John Carrier wrote:
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A somewhat simpler exercise with latency NOT a problem. I was thinking on
the order of a machine being maneuvered somewhere in Afghanistan by a driver
in Colo Springs. When you consider the distances, even at the speed of
light the satellite relay and delay offer enough time to make the job
difficult. Perhaps with sufficient nintendo skills, that might be overcome.

R / John



Apparently they've done/tried to use simulators in Australia vs
simulators in USA (F/A-18) for air combat..

The latency was a problem...

It doesn't matter how good your "nintendo skills" are.. You can't get
information there/back fast enough to do real time combat

On Jul 15, 7:48 pm, Kerryn Offord wrote:


Not air combat, but a kissin' cousin...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070715/D8QD61V80.html

The new 'Reapers' being deployed.

BB

I guess everybody has some mountain to climb.
It's just fate whether you live in Kansas or Tibet...

In article .com,
BlackBeard wrote:

On Jul 15, 7:48 pm, Kerryn Offord wrote:


Not air combat, but a kissin' cousin...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070715/D8QD61V80.html

The new 'Reapers' being deployed.

This is an interesting topic.
It reminds me of the first "stealth ship" that Lockheed built.
IIRC no one in the Navy wanted to command such a ship.
The problem was not technical, it was sociological.
Promotion is based on how many men are under your command.
The stealth ship had a radically smaller crew. So despite it's
greater capability, the general concensus was that if you captained
it you would be at a disadvantage career-wise.

I wonder if the same factors are at play here.
How many men make up a UCAV airwing, versus a manned wing?

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur