Stealth, 2005
Posted on 12/11/2019 8:22:17 PM PST by Mariner
The Air Force and DARPA are now testing new hardware and software configured to enable 4th-Generation aircraft to command drones from the cockpit in the air, bringing new levels of autonomy, more attack options and a host of new reconnaissance advantages to air warfare.
Working with BAE Systems at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Air Force test pilots are combing ground-based simulators with airborne leer jets to demonstrate how 4th generation cockpit avionics can direct drones from the air, BAE Systems developers said.
“The airplane was structurally configured to allow us to take our autonomy hardware and connect it directly to the flight control system of the airplane,” Skip Stolz, Director of Strategic Development for Autonomy Control, told Warrior Maven in an interview.
Demonstrations with specially configured leer jets are intended as an interim step on route to integrating this kind of system into an operational F-15, F-16 or even F-35, developers said.
Using standard data-link technology, the jets operate with a semi-autonomous software called Distributed Battle Management, which enables new levels of compressed airborne data transfer, weapons integration and sensor operations, Stolz explained.
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We just haven't had the opportunity to prove it in combat as we don't have a "near peer" willing to challenge us.
I guess they're not that "near".
Wireless communications can be hacked.
If an adversary hacks your controls your drone could soon be attacking you.
If it uses a standard technology it makes the hack that much easier.
This was the idea behind the F35.
Drones are an important part of the battlefield already.
Use a standard OS, or pay for a new one.
“Wireless communications can be hacked.”
Rarely, if ever.
The tech uses spread spectrum transmission on top of NSA encryption.
And the keys are rotated every single day.
The F-35 guys aren’t going to love it so much when they are defending against a swarm of incoming ChiCom drones.
EVE Online had this years ago...
How do they get around the problem that emitting anything makes you a target?
Kris Osborn needs an editor. It’s LEARjet and they” combined” .......
Gawd awful writing.
NCIS New Orleans had an episode earlier in this season where a plane was taken down by a drone swarm.
Is that something Peeping Toms would use?
Stealth, 2005
The US military is full of idiots, if you go by posts on this board sometimes :)
“they’ll lose to China in 13 minutes!!”
“EVERYTHING can be hacked or chopped!!! They’ll be steering our aircraft carriers!!!”
And then we beat the #### out of anyone we go up against :)
I’ll trust the guys taking care of business a little more than armchair Chiefs of Staff :)
I don’t think they’re quite 100 percent honest with the press and us about their capabilities.
That’s a good thing.
Let’s hope some sub sub contractor does not use Chinese components.
I noticed that too.
You need to read Ghost Fleet and then reconsider your post.
It's a new day on the battle field when the heads of the snake are the first to be taken out.
“NCIS New Orleans had an episode earlier in this season where a plane was taken down by a drone swarm”
I saw that, but there was a Black Mirror episode where killer drone bees assasinated people. That worries me more. We live in a brave new world.
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