Saturday, April 7, 2007

The Revolving Door for Predator Pilots

Strategy Page

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20070404.aspx

"New operator equipment was developed to enable one pilot to handle more than one Predator simultaneously. But this did not work out as well as expected, and pilots were rarely able to deal with more than two Predators at a time."

In my opinion this is a clear indicator that more intelligence needs to be built into the Predator. It should do more flying of itself. While the human operators will still be making decisions, the implementation of these decisions should be carried out, by and large, by the Predator. I have a feeling these sorts of changes will be implemented very soon.

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