So... I've noticed a lot of attention on something the public likes to call drones. They're talking about what us military people call UAVs. Rightly so, we're keeping with the military tradition of acronyms. Anyway, UAV stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. Types of UAVs include: the Raven, Predetor, Warrior, Global Hawk, etc. One of the most misleading things that is said lately is that UAV's are, as described in wikipedia is that they are "unpiloted aircraft." This is however, untrue. Someone is controlling almost all these aircraft at all times. Saying that they are unpioleted is te same as saying that if a plane is on autopilot, then they are unpiloted. Believe it or not, because there isn't someone in these aircraft, doesn't mean they aren't piloted. Soldiers who fly these things even get flight pay while operating them. This sort of makes sense to me:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1842216-2,00.html
Having the same training as a guy that actually flies in a plane doesn't seem to make sense when you well... don't.
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