F-20 Tigershark Might Make a Decent AI Autonomous CUAV Platform
Well, I don't care what anyone says about Obama's planned sequestration or that old video floating around where he once said that he wanted to gut the military, way back when he was in the Chicago Illinois legislature.
What I would like to see is our military running with Six Sigma efficiency.
Personally, I believe we should have the greatest military in the solar system regardless of whether or not there are any other nations that might challenge us.
I believe the United States of America should be able to have a military the size big enough to fight the entire world at the same time if that became necessary, and to win.
Some might say I'm crazy, but history doesn't show me to be crazy, in fact it shows my advice to be rather prudent actually.
Because of this we need more technologically advanced weapons and weapon systems, as well as huge numbers and quantities.
The reason we beat Hitler's Nazi regime in World War II was that we out produced the enemy.
Should we have enough weaponry ready to go prior to some large engagement of that type? Many people say that unmanned aerial vehicles or autonomous unmanned aerial combat vehicles aren't fair, yah but that's the point.
They also say robotic warfare is dangerous for the future of humanity.
I don't disagree that as weapon technologies increase, there is an ever present danger of inadvertently killing tens of millions of people.
However, what we've found out from strategic surgical weaponry is that we can just go after the bad guys, and leave the good guys alone.
Despite what you might have heard it turns out that collateral damage has been quite light in the last good many wars.
Huge sections of the population no longer have to die because of the war, thanks to advanced weapons systems, robotics, and yes, UAVs.
One platform I very much like is the F-20 Tigershark by Northrup.
Did you know that three trained mechanics can remove the jet engine, and replace it with another one in only 20 minutes? That's phenomenal, and we could easily train robots to do the same thing, on station in the middle of the battle space.
What if the F-20 Tigershark were made into a CUAV or combat UAV? Imagine the maneuverability, the performance, and how inexpensive they would be to produce on a mass scale.
Does this mean I wish to nix the F-35? No, but I also want to be ready for the future, because it is coming whether we like it or not.
Not only do we need the most advanced fighter and attack planes in the world and for the next 20 years, but we also need robotic combat unmanned aerial vehicles, and we are going to need them in large numbers.
Indeed I like the platform of the F-20 very much, fast, inexpensive, reliable, proven, and right for a CUAV.
Similarly I like all of those little diamond shaped models too, but we need 1000s of them.
Please consider all this and think on it.
What I would like to see is our military running with Six Sigma efficiency.
Personally, I believe we should have the greatest military in the solar system regardless of whether or not there are any other nations that might challenge us.
I believe the United States of America should be able to have a military the size big enough to fight the entire world at the same time if that became necessary, and to win.
Some might say I'm crazy, but history doesn't show me to be crazy, in fact it shows my advice to be rather prudent actually.
Because of this we need more technologically advanced weapons and weapon systems, as well as huge numbers and quantities.
The reason we beat Hitler's Nazi regime in World War II was that we out produced the enemy.
Should we have enough weaponry ready to go prior to some large engagement of that type? Many people say that unmanned aerial vehicles or autonomous unmanned aerial combat vehicles aren't fair, yah but that's the point.
They also say robotic warfare is dangerous for the future of humanity.
I don't disagree that as weapon technologies increase, there is an ever present danger of inadvertently killing tens of millions of people.
However, what we've found out from strategic surgical weaponry is that we can just go after the bad guys, and leave the good guys alone.
Despite what you might have heard it turns out that collateral damage has been quite light in the last good many wars.
Huge sections of the population no longer have to die because of the war, thanks to advanced weapons systems, robotics, and yes, UAVs.
One platform I very much like is the F-20 Tigershark by Northrup.
Did you know that three trained mechanics can remove the jet engine, and replace it with another one in only 20 minutes? That's phenomenal, and we could easily train robots to do the same thing, on station in the middle of the battle space.
What if the F-20 Tigershark were made into a CUAV or combat UAV? Imagine the maneuverability, the performance, and how inexpensive they would be to produce on a mass scale.
Does this mean I wish to nix the F-35? No, but I also want to be ready for the future, because it is coming whether we like it or not.
Not only do we need the most advanced fighter and attack planes in the world and for the next 20 years, but we also need robotic combat unmanned aerial vehicles, and we are going to need them in large numbers.
Indeed I like the platform of the F-20 very much, fast, inexpensive, reliable, proven, and right for a CUAV.
Similarly I like all of those little diamond shaped models too, but we need 1000s of them.
Please consider all this and think on it.
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