Europe Develops Robotic Warplanes.

StrategyPage ^ | March 27, 2006

[Tench_Coxe]

"Next, we'll be showing the world sub-orbital and orbital fighters/bombers. 20 years after we display our first sub-orbital fighter in public, we'll have a military base on the Moon (and a nuclear presence on Mars - far away from potential electronic interference/surveillence)."

Heck with nuclear. Mass drivers. Why have all the inconvenient radiation lying about?

[MeanWestTexan]

"Of course, remote, robotic aircraft generally are dependent upon an uplink. Counter measures in the future may focus on defeating that link."

Unless they think for themselves, of course.

The artificial intelligence in "simple" FPS games like Half-Life 2 (bad guys run away, hide, ambush, stay out of range of chosen weapon, get reinforcements, etc.) is already pretty complex. Not a huge stretch to have AI come into play if the uplink is nailed.

But yes, I agree home C&C would then be the weak link.