{"id":40567,"date":"2017-04-17T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T03:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40567"},"modified":"2017-04-17T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:40","slug":"us-air-force-reprograms-f-16-to-attack-target-without-a-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/us-air-force-reprograms-f-16-to-attack-target-without-a-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Reprograms F-16 to Attack Target. Without a Pilot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older models of the F-16 have been made into <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2013\/09\/24\/unmanned-qf-16-takes-to-the-air\/\">target drones<\/a> for a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2014\/09\/01\/qf-16-flies-as-target-for-first-time\/\">years now<\/a>. Just recently, however, a QF-16 was reprogrammed to fly autonomously and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2017-04-10-U-S-Air-Force-Lockheed-Martin-Demonstrate-Manned-Unmanned-Teaming\">attack a ground target<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but the programmed F-16 responded to a threat on the way into the target and then continued to the target: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the flight demonstration, an experimental F-16 aircraft acted as a surrogate Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) autonomously reacting to a dynamic threat environment during an air-to-ground strike mission&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lockheed Martin says the systems are being developed to support &#8220;Loyal Wingman&#8221; technology, which will presumably allow manned and unmanned aircraft to &#8220;team&#8221; in future warfare.<\/p>\n<p>But if you can take the man out of one cockpit, how hard is it to take the man out of the others?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older models of the F-16 have been made into target drones for a couple of years now. Just recently, however, a QF-16 was reprogrammed to fly autonomously and attack a ground target. Not only that, but the programmed F-16 responded to a threat on the way into the target and then continued to the target:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[282,5285,2665,2,281,845],"class_list":["post-40567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-drone","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-lockheed","tag-military","tag-qf-16","tag-ucav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40567","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=40567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}