I Have Seen The Future And It Is Unmanned

Impressive, eh?  Practical issues would be weapon load, level of autonomy/command and control, cost, and battery life.  Still, impressive, eh?

UAV Manpower

from the Air Force Association on-line magazine: “If it takes about 170 personnel today to operate one combat air patrol of MQ-1 or MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft, how many are needed for a single high-flying RQ-4 Global Hawk CAP? Maj. Richard Johnson, Air Force spokesman for intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance issues, tells the Daily Report that the number [...]

Unmanned Air, Space and Cyberspace?

Let’s see: the best space return on investment comes from satellites and not astronauts.  The internet has very few overseers compared to the number of users.  And what about flying?  While UAVs can’t (yet) be all things to all peoples at all times, we are getting closer and closer. At Esquire, Brian Mockenhaupt writes We’ve Seen [...]

Navy Wants Top UAV Billing

UAVs will be like cyber. There will be no definitive leader, but there will be multiple users.