Those crazy drone pilots again.

Ranger Psych said:
To be honest, I could most likely run a drone rather well from the comfort of my own home. Double sign me up if I can say "fuck formations" and telecommute.
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I've often thought that if they could mount a laser to those things and let me burn ISIS bitches up all day long, I'd happily do that job from the comfort of my own living room. And sleep well at night. EVERY night.

...I wouldn't even complain about it being cold :)
 
Marauder06 said:
I've often thought that if they could mount a laser to those things and let me burn ISIS bitches up all day long, I'd happily do that job from the comfort of my own living room. And sleep well at night. EVERY night.

...I wouldn't even complain about it being cold :)
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Half helium, half water, asjustable self sealing clear blimp. Use it as a magnifying glass for daytime engagements.

Still think we need to put up mylar frameworks for solar reflectors using ion thrust + gyroscopic attitude adjustment..... Oh, hiding in a cave? Magma encasement, go.....
 
Ranger Psych said:
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To be honest, I could most likely run a drone rather well from the comfort of my own home. Double sign me up if I can say "fuck formations" and telecommute.
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That is the most freaking awesome setup I've ever seen. If I had that my wife would leave me, my kids would leave me, my animals would leave me, and I'd never know they were gone...
 
Ocoka said:
That is the most freaking awesome setup I've ever seen. If I had that my wife would leave me, my kids would leave me, my animals would leave me, and I'd never know they were gone...
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MC had no problem with me building it, as it made work easier.

Right now I just get to play with either the laptop, tablet, or Gear VR in the truck. Once I buy my own truck, I will build a dedicated truck system...
 
Marauder06 said:
Maybe the enlisted pilots won't be so fragile.

First enlisted RPA pilots graduate

Also, I love how they only used first names in the article. Wonder why they didn't black the eyes in the pic too. :rolleyes:
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They went through all of that trouble keeping things on a first name basis....and then went on to say that they'd be in a pretty specific location on a pretty specific date....

I thought enlisted guys flew the unmanned systems already? The exception being armed systems which have to be piloted by officers. Or am I missing something?
 
arch_angel said:
They went through all of that trouble keeping things on a first name basis....and then went on to say that they'd be in a pretty specific location on a pretty specific date....

I thought enlisted guys flew the unmanned systems already? The exception being armed systems which have to be piloted by officers. Or am I missing something?
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I guess I don't understand why the armed systems need to be piloted by O's, when they could just as easily just have a Fire Direction O, like on some multiweapon platforms, that just functions ss part of the "kill chain" onboard. Enlisted guys do the targeting and pull the trigger, 2 O's concur and flip the safety off.
 
Ranger Psych said:
I guess I don't understand why the armed systems need to be piloted by O's, when they could just as easily just have a Fire Direction O, like on some multiweapon platforms, that just functions ss part of the "kill chain" onboard. Enlisted guys do the targeting and pull the trigger, 2 O's concur and flip the safety off.
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I'm not sure on this either, I thought someone explained to me once that the AF requires its drone drivers to be licensed and AF-accredited pilots, which apparently until now was only available to officers.
 
Marauder06 said:
I'm not sure on this either, I thought someone explained to me once that the AF requires its drone drivers to be licensed and AF-accredited pilots, which apparently until now was only available to officers.
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Correct. The USAF doesn't like entrusting things to the lowly enlisted man.
 
x SF med said:
FIFY... if the failure cycle increases then the actual mean time between failure decreases, giving you more failure incidents in the same number of hours/days etc... or did I read what you meant wrong?
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I can't math right now so I'll just agree with you and move on with life. The higher the temps, the more stuff breaks. Numbers and stuff or something and words and coffee...
 
Plenty of NCO pilots in the RAF during WW2. And Chuck Yeager never went to college. Anybody with a brain can fly, properly trained, and anybody--properly trained--can pull a trigger.

Maybe it's just an AF thing, but IMV, Marine E4s handle more responsibility than many AF E5s and E6s.
 
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CDG said:
Correct. The USAF doesn't like entrusting things to the lowly enlisted man.
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That's so crazy....There are E4's and E5's piloting UAVs in the Marine Corps. Not only that, but most of them were given pretty hefty ($10's o thousands hefty) to lateral move into the MOS. Based on some of the stories I'm reading on Reddit, most of them absolutely hate it.

The exception to this is the newish Officer MOS for armed systems. Anything that drops munitions requires an Officer in that field (based on what very little information I've been able to dig up).
 
Ranger Psych said:
I guess I don't understand why the armed systems need to be piloted by O's, when they could just as easily just have a Fire Direction O, like on some multiweapon platforms, that just functions ss part of the "kill chain" onboard. Enlisted guys do the targeting and pull the trigger, 2 O's concur and flip the safety off.
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Just pointing out that the enlisted guys control the laser and the O pulls the trigger and manually flies the drone.
 
Yeah so...this will go over well....

US military drone footage streamed on the internet | Daily Mail Online

Military drone recordings were accidentally streamed on the internet.

The US government appears to have accidentally streamed footage of a military-style drone.

The video appears to be recording thousands of feet above northwest Florida, over the coast, with the camera aimed at random civilian boaters.

Experts have deduced that the footage came from Predator drones, which are primarily used by the Air Force and CIA to record an area right before a missile is dropped.
 
Meh....I see no issue with training like that....all in a public area, and hoping it was nothing but training.

now the streaming to the internet....unacceptable. time to fire the contractor.
 

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