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Originally posted by COWlan
Do you think the UCAV's will be operable without human controlling? cuz its gonna take a lot of CPU power to be able to do all the things that human pilots need to do. With so much debt USA has will the developement slow down or even be canceled?
Originally posted by titus
generation 6 craft is air/spaceplane
i guess that generation 7 aircraft will be antigravity air/space crafts.
aka Hypersoar or AJAX equipped with systems to shield gravity. since mass of plane would be 0, aircraft will be able to pull enormous acceleration, and enormous speeds... etc.
i think it a bit too early for AI crafts
and whats the AJAX? And anti-gravity! we dont have anti-gravity tech. No one has any proof that such things are in the governments bag of secrets.
I believe that the fighter role of the fighter is gone when UCAVs and scramjet bombers rule the skies. Air defense against large numbers of small, agile UCAVs will require a lowcost, high volume of fire system such as Metal Storm to counter.
Ultimately, I agree that we are moving towards space-based radar and space-based strategic weapons as well as strategic defense (likely based on lasers and directed energy). Both vision and striking power will come almost instantly from space-borne platforms. The problem here is that these could be shot down by ground-based lasers. In the next era, world war would last not hours, but minutes, and in mere minutes years of work and preparation would be undone. As with every technological revolution- the balance between defense and offense is upset and one becomes superior. It will either take a costly war to right the doctrine, or the war will never come and we will never know.
Originally posted by Murcielago
CPU Power we got, The F-22 has 2 super computers in it.
The Global Hawk can taxi and take off with one click of the mouse go do recon and come back and land with a click off the mouse and taxi back exactly where it left from, then click the mouse and its engine shuts-off.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
There was a recent show on Discovery Wings about the F-22 that stated that its computer was able to do 35 Billion Operations Per Second.
Robots are by any standard stupid right now, but they are growing at a rate of something like a million times faster then human.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
I agree RichardPrice about computers right now they might be able to tell this object is a T-72 but if there are dozens of school children playing on a old T-72 it will not understand that. I could program a robot to iron my shirt but it wont understand the point of the task is to get the shirt free of wrinkles.
But I dont see Gen 7 planes comming until 2050 more then enough time to have true AI.
[edit on 1-10-2004 by ShadowXIX]