Originally Posted by Irishguy
Originally Posted by gcr0003
So the vehicle would be autonomous for surveillance but the execution of a detonation would still need military personal authorization. Typically from the undersea operations standpoint this would look something like it running autonomously to look at say a stretch of pipeline or an area of interest that has mines. It would sweep and take images and return or surface to send information about the area and identify things it thought were mines or threats. military personnel would then tell it to go back and destroy the targets. Something like that. It’s not complete autonomy at this point.


I'm sure it's not completely autonomous, but it's just one of many steps along the way.

Back in the day, a guy sitting in a computer chair in Las Vegas, Nevada, taking out an SUV moving at 80 mph full of high value targets somewhere in the dessert, sounded fantastical, but now-a-days it seems common place. Makes you think that one day wars will be fought by video gamers and autonomous robots.


I know a 100lb 5 foot tall woman who probably has more confirmed drone kills than John Rambo did in the first three movies. Her office was in Las Vegas.


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