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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs the US using surveillance drones to look for the plane?
Seems like some good PR for the flying killer robots.
According to dod.mil only the navy is involved/looking.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But at that point we might as well use satellites (and probably are). Drones are expensive enough that you're usually better off using manned flight in a permissive environment.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and they are potentially extremely useful in disasters and major accidents (or searches for a plane that is getting weird)
Drones, literally this
Iwasthere
(3,158 posts)They could implement a long line of drones covering an enormous area.
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)You want an antisubmarine platform for this mission, and the P-8 is as good as it gets for this.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)That doesn't make sense, considering this is confirmed to be a hijacking.
There are 20 employees of an american firm on board and 4 americans and all we can commit is 1 ship and 1 plane?
Surprisingly unmotivated and disinterested for an organization whose primary mission is the GLOBAL war on terror.
One imagines the pentagon knew what boeing knew in almost real time...and they
Igel
(35,293 posts)You can say "the X" to name the kind of thing being used. It says nothing about the number of the thing being used. It's a prototypical use of the word.
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)When the search started they assumed it was sitting at the bottom of the ocean...which means looking for it like they were looking for a submarine. They're inventing an antisubmarine drone but don't have one in active service yet.
randome
(34,845 posts)And if we did, can you imagine how difficult it would be to keep them from ramming into one another? They're not conjured into existence by a Harry Potter wand, you know.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)I doubt that there are all that many of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk
On the other hand, if the pilot ditched the 777 without it breaking apart very much, there wouldn't be much on the ocean surface to detect.