The United States military makes history. On May 14th for the first time a military drone the size of a fighter jet X-47B saw air without a pilot inside, total cost was $1.4 billion US dollars to create. What does this mean? This could mean that more military pilots will survive battles in the future because they are not needed inside these jets but without these machines being run by pilots how will they know who to aim their missiles at? Is the idea of having these types of aircraft's good or bad? Some say this is a good thing because it would be able to shot down missiles without putting a human life in danger where others say its not a good thing because how does this machine know what people are good or bad because it has no detection of individuals whereas a pilot might be able to see a soldiers uniform or know where not to aim its missiles at because of commands from their generals back home. There is one major drawback to this idea and that is the idea that if the computer system would be hacked then the fighter jet could potentially become a major threat to its own nation.
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The new Joint Strike Fighter jet "might be the last manned fighter the US ever build. They're so expensive, they're so complex, and you put a human at risk every time it take off from a carrier," said James Lewis, senior fellow at the Centre for Stategic and International Studies in Washington.
Right now it might not be far enough along in the process to decide whether this is a good or a bad thing but I want to know what readers are thinking from both the United State prospective and from another countries prospective?
$1.4 billion could reduce the number of homeless in America instead of satisfying the whims of a paranoid minority.
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