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To: hardspunned
According to Newsweek, the Pentagon confirmed the emergency landing of the piloted aircraft.

Huh? A drone with a pilot?

5 posted on 03/19/2024 6:45:42 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Send them a bill. It appears they need an editor. I read right by that.


6 posted on 03/19/2024 6:49:14 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: PGR88

I think they mean the pilot operating the drone remotely, lost contact with it.


9 posted on 03/19/2024 6:50:55 PM PDT by dforest
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Reapers are piloted (from Nevada, New Mexico, etc.)...not an autonomous drone.

https://www.nbcnews.com/technology/virtual-cockpit-what-it-takes-fly-drone-1C9319684


13 posted on 03/19/2024 6:55:11 PM PDT by Drago
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To: PGR88

Controlled from a remote base.


21 posted on 03/19/2024 7:22:16 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: PGR88; aMorePerfectUnion
Huh? A drone with a pilot?

Poorly written I would say.

39 posted on 03/19/2024 8:31:36 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: PGR88

Remotely piloted drone.

As opposed to the AI version.


56 posted on 03/20/2024 11:35:26 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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