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Drones Inflight Refueling From Drones

STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16261 posts, RR: 52
Posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2687 times:

This opens up so many possibilities, they could loiter on target almost indefinitely.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/fu...efuel-themselves-mid-air-1C6320770

Eastern Air lines flt # 701, EWR-MCO Boeing 757

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oykie From Norway, joined Jan 2006, 2575 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (7 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2669 times:

Interesting! This shows that in the end the U.S will have the capability of sustaining a military operation without humans. This opens up possibilities for defence and air dominance across the globe.

It might be cheaper to skip humans all together as long as we do not need boots on the ground. Of course in a major attack boots on the ground to mark targets are still needed.

The future will be interesting.

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large, then go make that dream real - Donald Douglas

moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12
Reply 2, posted (7 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2349 times:

And they carry the world's smallest boom operator...

KC-135 - Passing gas and taking names!

sweair From Sweden, joined Nov 2011, 1551 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2288 times:

Quoting moose135 (Reply 3):
And they carry the world's smallest boom operator...

We care about the small people!

C.H Svanberg

ptrjong From Netherlands, joined Mar 2005, 3771 posts, RR: 20
Reply 4, posted (7 months 2 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 2213 times:

Quoting oykie (Reply 1):
Interesting! This shows that in the end the U.S will have the capability of sustaining a military operation without humans. This opens up possibilities for defence and air dominance across the globe.

It might be cheaper to skip humans all together as long as we do not need boots on the ground. Of course in a major attack boots on the ground to mark targets are still needed.

The future will be interesting.

This sounds horribly Dr. Strangelove to me.

It is well that war is so terrible -- otherwise politicians whould grow too fond of it.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad (Salvador Dali)