{"id":403,"date":"2009-08-17T00:35:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T04:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/uav-pilots-to-outnumber-fighterbomber-pilots\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:34:17","slug":"uav-pilots-to-outnumber-fighterbomber-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/17\/uav-pilots-to-outnumber-fighterbomber-pilots\/","title":{"rendered":"UAV Pilots to Outnumber Fighter\/Bomber Pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/10\/AR2009081002712.html?hpid=sec-nation\">Washington Post<\/a> picks up on the news mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/16\/uav-trainees-to-outnumber-combat-pilots\/\">a few months ago<\/a> that the Air Force will train more unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots this year than fighter or bomber pilots.\u00a0 (The Post gets the headline wrong; the comparison is not to <em>all<\/em> pilots, as it\u00a0does not include cargo, transport, or other airframes.)\u00a0 General Stephen Lorenz, commander of the Air Education and Training Command, repeated the comment last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting conclusion to the article, Lt. Gen. David Deptula, Air Force deputy chief of staff for ISR, commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will the unmanned aircraft ever completely replace either bombers or fighters? In delivering weapons on target, Deptula said, &#8220;Yes, you bet.&#8221; But when it comes to controlling airspace, flying against enemy fighters, the general said, the technology cannot yet achieve 360-degree awareness. A human brain is still superior in the assimilation of information and responding to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post picks up on the news mentioned a few months ago that the Air Force will train more unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots this year than fighter or bomber pilots.\u00a0 (The Post gets the headline wrong; the comparison is not to all pilots, as it\u00a0does not include cargo, transport, or other airframes.)\u00a0 General Stephen Lorenz, commander of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13,1989,2,1987,53],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-aircraft","tag-david-deptula","tag-military","tag-stephen-lorenz","tag-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}