EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The 96th Test Wing and 53rd Wing welcomed the first three F-16 Fighting Falcons ready to take part in the Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model – Autonomy Flying Testbed program.
VENOM-AFT is designed and funded to accelerate testing of autonomy software on crewed and uncrewed aircraft. VENOM-AFT complements the Autonomy Data and AI Experimentation proving ground at Eglin and informs the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program and other autonomy developers.
USAF has been working toward a drone wingman tech for a while. One F 35 with a few drones out in front a few miles to take all the risks.
What could go wrong?
If you can not find a USAF pilot willing to drop bombs on American Citizens, just send a drone to do it.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
Makes sense. F-16 is more capable than any pilot can fly it.
Yup, they flew a radio controlled version back in the mid-seventies. The aircraft can pull more Gs that a human body can tolerate, the onboard computer limits the flight controls so a pilot doesn't break themselves... 🤭
1935 Europe: When was the last time ANYONE rounded up every Jew, Gypsy, and queer they could get their hands on, and then systematically executed 6 million of them?
Oh that's right....NEVER.
Do you think the red army in Russia did not use EVERY weapon at their disposal to eliminate the white army.
We are the White Russians 100 years later. The reds will use every tool at their disposal to eliminate us.
One might remember the recent events in what was once Yugoslavia to gain a clue.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
1935 Europe: When was the last time ANYONE rounded up every Jew, Gypsy, and queer they could get their hands on, and then systematically executed 6 million of them?
Oh that's right....NEVER.
Do you think the red army in Russia did not use EVERY weapon at their disposal to eliminate the white army.
We are the White Russians 100 years later. The reds will use every tool at their disposal to eliminate us.
One might remember the recent events in what was once Yugoslavia to gain a clue.
Smokepole: "When was the last time the USAF dropped bombs on US citizens, numbnuts?
Oh, that's right. Never." Mitchell was dispatched by President Harding to West Virginia to stop the warfare that had broken out between the United Mine Workers, Stone Mountain Coal Company, the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency, and other groups after the Matewan Massacre. On August 26, Mitchell commanded Army bombers from Maryland to Charleston, West Virginia. Mitchell told the press that Army bombers alone could end the "Mingo War" by dropping tear gas on the miners. Technically you are correct because the USAF had not been constituted yet but your patronizing manner is noted. You may also want to review the Bonus Army affair starring Macarthur and Patton, the Haymarket affair and the Minneapolis Teamsters strike.
X-47B Completes First Carrier-based Arrested Landing video posted to YouTube on Jul 10, 2013
"The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator completed its first carrier-based arrested landing on board USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) off the coast of Virginia July 10."
The MQ-25 Conducts First Unmanned Aerial Tanking video posted to YouTube on Jun 7, 2021
"NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The MQ-25™ program successfully conducted the first ever aerial refueling operations between a manned receiver aircraft and unmanned tanker June 4 from MidAmerica Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois."
