Air Force Calls for Unmanned Cargo Aircraft To Supply Hazardous Combat Zones

this is a really good idea. this idea will diffidently decrease the death in hot combat zones
-3D-

Sounds like a missile with a parachute and some floaters to me. How much cargo will it have to haul?

Good for delievering:

1) Supplies to entrenched troops in remote locations.
2) Delievering smaller tacticle drones (increaing range of lesser drones).
3) Delievery of massive ordinances (bombing)

Fill this thing up with Big Dogs and have it land in the middle of a fight releasing the Big Dogs who can travel in various directions to different squads. Sounds like a good plan, but there is an even safer way to fight a war without putting our troops in hazardous conditions. Just ask Japan.

this totally needs to go commercial.

Kudos to the Corps for picking the U.S. company for it's U.S. Defense contract, if I had the cash to spare I'd buy a Marine a beer just for that. Apparently the Air Force has all the jobs and money their family will ever need already.

so why haven't they created this yet? This is perfect for delivering health aids for hurt soldiers in strong combat zones.

so why haven't they created this yet? This is perfect for delivering health aids for hurt soldiers in strong combat zones.

Just what the military needs. More parameters to make warfare more convenient. Roboticize every aspect so that we don't have to worry about fighting wars ourselves. We'll just assign individuals to be casualties of war and send them in droves to die as unfortunate victims of computerized warfare. Who cares about trying to deter warfare through the blunt nature of real violence, loss of life and the emotional and psychological ramifications of the people affected by war. Let's just make warfare more convenient. That way we don't ever have to worry about trying to get along with anyone.

But since few people have seen that episode of Star Trek, I guess Sci-fi can no longer teach the vastly growing generation of the dense, whom are so fascinated by flashy images of roboticized gadgets.

But, this is about saving lives in warfare (isn't any intelligent person seeing this huge contradiction). We need technology like this to protect people. We should commercialize it so that people don't have to worry about trusting a flawed pilot. Instead we can trust a machine programmed by a flawed scientist.

Then we should create more supplements like cars that drive themselves, Robots that do our laundry, clean our houses, cook our dinner, fetch our mail, shop for our groceries, and bathe us. This technology along with our already near perfect PCs and 3G devices will allow us to give up on this fallacy called the human experience. Why live life actively when technology can do it for us.

"Welcome! to the Federation Starship SS Buttcrack!!!"

already jet liners dont need and often dont use the pilot during take off, landing or level flight. often the only reason the pilot is landing the plane instead of the computer is because he enjoys it.

replace the human pilot right now with triple redundant (radio, satellite and cellular) video monitoring, and remote control manual flight controls and there is NO reason to even have onboard human pilots on ANY plane, anywhere.. ever... not landing in iraq, or even london or new york.

silly fears are holding us back.

cheers, eh

@Pheonix1012
While noone may read this, you are flying off the handle. There is a large line dividing a remote controlled plane and a robot picking up the kids form the daycare. If you are so opposed to the idea of a remote plane jump in it your self and try to fly in into Iranian borders. Why is there a need for life to be lost over cargo if it can be avoided, many pilots who fly cargo in to hot countries are not even military pilots but private contractors and even ordenary citizens.

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I think that one option is a semi powered glider, with a snap wing. So it can fit in the bomb racks of existing bombers, drop out, wing snap into place, guidance and power can help it get to new locations as needed. So the bomber can drop the load in a stand off mode, supply different groups, all this before the final exact destination is determined...
talking about troop resupply, ammo, medical, food, spare parts.

When you eliminate the cockpit, then you can have a much smaller plane with same payload, or multiple planes with smaller payloads, or semi-disposable planes in case you need to land them and maybe recover them by helo later.