Flying Robots of Doom are themselves doomed

[MadRat]

Killer Drone Dead - New Bomber Lives

Excerpt:

"Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems -- the joint Air Force and Navy program to develop a killer drone -- has been cancelled, Inside Defense is reporting. "Instead, the Defense Department will begin work this year on a next-generation long-range strike aircraft, accelerating its bomber modernization plans by nearly two decades in an effort to quickly enhance the Air Force?s effectiveness across the Asia-Pacific region."

x45a_overhead.jpgJ-UCAS was supposed to produce an armed drone that could knock out enemy air defenses, conduct surveillance, jam enemy radars. On the side, it might do some strike missions. But it would mainly pave the way for manned aircraft."

 

[judasmachine]

The robot army is vaporware? Well it's good news for Sarah Conner.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Killer Drone Dead - New Bomber Lives

Excerpt:

"Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems -- the joint Air Force and Navy program to develop a killer drone -- has been cancelled, Inside Defense is reporting. "Instead, the Defense Department will begin work this year on a next-generation long-range strike aircraft, accelerating its bomber modernization plans by nearly two decades in an effort to quickly enhance the Air Force?s effectiveness across the Asia-Pacific region."

x45a_overhead.jpgJ-UCAS was supposed to produce an armed drone that could knock out enemy air defenses, conduct surveillance, jam enemy radars. On the side, it might do some strike missions. But it would mainly pave the way for manned aircraft."

Last i heard the x45a was being replaced with a new x45c. I somehow doubt this program is scrapped.

 

[MadRat]

It turns out the story should of been titled "Joint UCAV Project Cancelled, USAF and USN to Continue UCAV Seperately."

The DARPA J-UCAS office has handed development back to the respective services for which they need a UCAV. The USAF will get a long range bomb truck type of vehicle and the USN will get a smaller vehicle more compatible to the likes of a CBG. A one-size-fits-all solution was not possible. So, like the previous half dozen programs they've split like this in the past, the Navy will end up making the fighter design that the Air Force will then adopt when they see their solution was inflexible and one-dimensional.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
The robot army is vaporware? Well it's good news for Sarah Conner.

:laugh: