No one from DARPA or the United States Army is coming to Armorama, Missing-Lynx, or Track-Link for critiques of their plans. Nor should they. Modeling sites are not fonts of cutting-edge thinking. People are free to express their opinions on here but those opinions must be considered for what they typically are: uninformed, ill-considered, immature, prejudiced, backward-looking, reactionary, poorly expressed, and often a combination of all of the preceding. It is perfectly reasonable if not absolutely correct to say that anyone with legitimate, useful input to this story and others like it is not expressing it on Armorama.

Please people, you are just blabbering out what pops into your mind. Don't kid yourself that your posts matter to the issue.

KL

I don't think that Anyone here on Armorama ever thought that our comments would have the slightest influence on the policymakers.
We can still voice opinions and have fun though

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I don't think that Anyone here on Armorama ever thought that our comments would have the slightest influence on the policymakers.
We can still voice opinions and have fun though

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In other words, "you are just blabbering out what pops into your mind."

Which is fine, but why I originally said that this was the typical model site reaction to any military technology story.

KL

Maybe we should all become politicians, by your description we should be perfect for the job

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Maybe we should all become politicians, by your description we should be perfect for the job

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Not me: Did too many drugs and [auto-censored]ed too many women.

KL

Did too many drugs and [auto-censored]ed too many women.

I do not know 'for the first but for the second seems to be part of the CV of the perfect politician ....

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Typical model site reaction to any military technology story . . .

"It will never work and everyone is stupid except me."

KL

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So rude...you can also turn like this if you really want...

At some point in the future, there's going to be a lot of driverless military vehicles. The Air Force and Navy will go pilotless, probably as soon as the current generation of pilots/aviators retire. The technology might not be as good as an American human pilot in certain combat situations, but no other pilots in the world are that good either. Navy small boats would be next, though I think ships will always need men for damage control if nothing else. Ground forces will take longer, but at some point somebody will invent robots capable of killing humans easily, and the desire to keep American troops alive will override the generals who want humans to do the fighting.