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This might be a nieve question, but why do/did we need the F-22? Was the F-15 realy all that antiquated? I seem to remember the AF playing with a Modified F-15 called the F-15 “active” which sported forward canards and vectered thrust. If memory serves me right, this plane could easily fly circles around almost anything out there, and there is NO way they would have cost us more than the F-22! Just a thought =)
@cgmoose re: why f-22? the role that stealth f-117 played in desert storm has been interpreted as a mandate for an all stealth AF. f-15 can’t do much until a stealth bird knocks out ground-to-air defenses because it’s aluminum i.e. a SAM magnet. f-22 is stealth. rather simple from this angle, but that’s the gist of it. f-15 provides air-to-air superiority, f-22 provides air superiority fullstop.
I find the speakers talk of greater autonomy for robots very troubling. If at this phase we are talking about giving simple robots greater autonomy to free up the burden on the operator, it becomes very easy to argue for full autonomy. Where does it end? If I trust my robot “teammate” (this is the kind of scary psychology these people likely are spreading)to go from point A-B ‚no problem without my supervision. Then eventually some where down the line, I’m going to be OK with my robot “teammate” going from point A-B and dropping ordinances. I’m sure as technology evolves, we will be trusting our robot “teammates” to make decisions in our absence because we have been conditioned to trust our robot “teammates”. That, and it’s more convenient to take the burden off of the operators. Furthermore we are in the age where cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent from near peers and not so near peers. Can you imagine what could happen if someone hacked a drone (automated or otherwise) with a payload or bomb and used it against?
very glad i made some time for the nano-/bio– tech panel. materials research tends to either go over my head or well outside my periphery but for the most part i found the panelists engaging — Dr. Rice’s work with energetic materials is just waaay out of my league. as an interdisciplinary researcher and a student of biology i can’t help but applaud the enthusiasm for bio-inspired design expressed by the panelists. the increasing support DoD labs are providing for these multidisciplinary avenues of inquiry is rapidly paying dividends in application.
complete video of the first day is up, keynotes and presentations… presenter and poster papers… the streaming audio… half expecting a box of vendor pens, glossies, and other exhibit hall bric-a-brac to show up in the mail today.
This might be a nieve question, but why do/did we need the F-22? Was the F-15 realy all that antiquated? I seem to remember the AF playing with a Modified F-15 called the F-15 “active” which sported forward canards and vectered thrust. If memory serves me right, this plane could easily fly circles around almost anything out there, and there is NO way they would have cost us more than the F-22! Just a thought =)
@cgmoose
re: why f-22?
the role that stealth f-117 played in desert storm has been interpreted as a mandate for an all stealth AF. f-15 can’t do much until a stealth bird knocks out ground-to-air defenses because it’s aluminum i.e. a SAM magnet. f-22 is stealth.
rather simple from this angle, but that’s the gist of it. f-15 provides air-to-air superiority, f-22 provides air superiority fullstop.
on topic, i’m digging dr. killion’s talk for obvious reasons.
I find the speakers talk of greater autonomy for robots very troubling. If at this phase we are talking about giving simple robots greater autonomy to free up the burden on the operator, it becomes very easy to argue for full autonomy. Where does it end?
If I trust my robot “teammate” (this is the kind of scary psychology these people likely are spreading)to go from point A-B ‚no problem without my supervision. Then eventually some where down the line, I’m going to be OK with my robot “teammate” going from point A-B and dropping ordinances. I’m sure as technology evolves, we will be trusting our robot “teammates” to make decisions in our absence because we have been conditioned to trust our robot “teammates”. That, and it’s more convenient to take the burden off of the operators.
Furthermore we are in the age where cyber attacks are becoming more prevalent from near peers and not so near peers. Can you imagine what could happen if someone hacked a drone (automated or otherwise) with a payload or bomb and used it against?
very glad i made some time for the nano-/bio– tech panel. materials research tends to either go over my head or well outside my periphery but for the most part i found the panelists engaging — Dr. Rice’s work with energetic materials is just waaay out of my league.
as an interdisciplinary researcher and a student of biology i can’t help but applaud the enthusiasm for bio-inspired design expressed by the panelists. the increasing support DoD labs are providing for these multidisciplinary avenues of inquiry is rapidly paying dividends in application.
complete video of the first day is up, keynotes and presentations… presenter and poster papers… the streaming audio…
half expecting a box of vendor pens, glossies, and other exhibit hall bric-a-brac to show up in the mail today.