Test Flight X-47B Stealth drone

[01vnms4v]

Saw this at work today the new X-47B Stealth drone.

This thing is going to be awesome. I dont know how to embed so here is the link on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYGIZvriIAI

[UserX]

[UserX]

Damn that fucker must be pricey! Oh and read the sticky at the top of this forum, it explains how to embed.

[TexasDevilDog]

UAVs will be the future. The human in the aircraft is the limiting factor of its performance.

[Hobie]

UAVs will be the future. The human in the aircraft is the limiting factor of its performance.

and has been for decades

[bottlerocket]

Fighter pilot's days are numbered

[A+]

Fighter pilot's days are numbered

Isn't that a good thing? Trying to minimize as many casualties as possible?

[bottlerocket]

Isn't that a good thing? Trying to minimize as many casualties as possible?

So is that what warfare is coming to? What next? Other countries develop their own UAVs and unmanned combat vehicles? So then we just send countless numbers of them at each other until one or the other run out? Sorry, but the human element has a place in warfare, otherwise it is just a measure of production power, in which case, China will rule the world...

[Hobie]

So is that what warfare is coming to? What next? Other countries develop their own UAVs and unmanned combat vehicles? So then we just send countless numbers of them at each other until one or the other run out? Sorry, but the human element has a place in warfare, otherwise it is just a measure of production power, in which case, China will rule the world...

Well it won't be going backwards anytime soon.

Think how much easier it will be for this country to justify military action when it's fought by people sitting at a computer safely here in the states that go home nightly to their families rather than spilling US blood on the soil of 3rd world shitholes.

[bottlerocket]

Well it won't be going backwards anytime soon.

Think how much easier it will be for this country to justify military action when it's fought by people sitting at a computer safely here in the states that go home nightly to their families rather than spilling US blood on the soil of 3rd world shitholes.

Lol just what we need

"oh its cool, we can nuke em, we will definitely not have any losses in the process"

[SMEGMA STENCH]

UAVs will be the future. The human in the aircraft is the limiting factor of its performance.

Except for the fact that unmanned allows for the possibility, however small, that it could get its instructions from somewhere else.

[Mustangfreak]

That's bad ass!

[sig239]

So is that what warfare is coming to? What next? Other countries develop their own UAVs and unmanned combat vehicles? So then we just send countless numbers of them at each other until one or the other run out? Sorry, but the human element has a place in warfare, otherwise it is just a measure of production power, in which case, China will rule the world...

Agreed, they will never do away with them, you cant beat the guy behind the sticks view and gut feeling compared to a kid in a room 3k away who is looking at a LCD TV screen. There good though will save a lot of time and money on things that don't require a man in the seat view.

[GhostTX]

[redrocket5.0]

This comes to mind, Hmmmm!