"complete a full mission"

Which is? How long before these things are armed? The lizard army awaits...

I strongly object to some poorly trained muppet on the ground flying around their Orwellian spy toys, and putting at risk the lives of those involved in general and commercial aviation.

Even in controlled airspace, we don't want to put an additional workload on our overstretched and overstressed air traffic controllers. Outside controlled airspace it is purely the responsibility of trained pilots to ensure everyone's safety, and not being in the cockpit drastically reduces that imperative.

Welcome our new autonomous flying overlords...

Mine's the brown leather, thanks...

of these vs just training pilots to fly regular aircraft, and I mean the whole cost not just the droid it's self, but R&D, command and control and making sure they don't ram a real airplane full of actual people.

Bagging one of these will be more fun than clay pigeon shooting. How many pieces will they shatter into?

Blighty’s

Low-capability

Unmanned

Expensive

Big-brother

Internal

Reconasance

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