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Sounds like a very expensive drone
More like it'll fly itself while the pilot engages in other tasks. Every pound of weapons officer/navigator is a pound you can't put on target all else being equal.
How, exactly, does that ensure a safe reliable environment? Humans are pretty bad at suddenly taking over when an automatic system reaches its limits and throws a problem in the human's lap. A lot of air upsets and crashes start when the autopilot disengages and hands control of a badly configured aircraft back to a human pilot.
A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must make all unpopular management decisions
All Stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet funding bill is passed. The system goes on-line on August 4, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Ha - this was the first thing that came to mind. I read this in Arnold's voice.
Sounds like a very expensive drone
More like it'll fly itself while the pilot engages in other tasks. Every pound of weapons officer/navigator is a pound you can't put on target all else being equal.
Should I seek another target looking similar to the one I unintentionally destroyed so as to tune my decision-making, or give you an advice on how to wipe the traces of this mishap from the mission data recorder?"
A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must make all unpopular management decisions
Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like it'll fly itself while the pilot engages in other tasks. Every pound of weapons officer/navigator is a pound you can't put on target all else being equal.
Does the presence of humans on board limit the maneuverability of these aircraft in any way? E.g. in terms of acceleration?