6,103 [KNMSU] Battlecruiser_Siegfried Members 7,086 posts Report post #1 Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) Because I didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Aircraft_Factory_TDN The crazy thing is, it even vaguely resembles the MQ-9 Reaper - especially in the nose. Edited April 4, 2017 by Dreadnought_Hyuga 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1,815 [-KIA-] ValkyrWarframe Members 5,245 posts 17,322 battles Report post #2 Posted April 4, 2017 I would kill to have automated drones doing my work in a carrier. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
48 BrassFire Members 515 posts 306 battles Report post #3 Posted April 4, 2017 Wait what Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8,256 [SOUP] Chobittsu Members 9,444 posts Report post #4 Posted April 4, 2017 And just a few short years later, they failed to bring shoot another down Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
104 yamatotamura Beta Testers 653 posts 13,839 battles Report post #5 Posted April 4, 2017 Well if its drones then I will feel half bad when all my planes get shot down by BB. Since you know planes now a days are like tissue paper. Anything will shred it so. So when all my 24 or so planes die in 5 seconds I wont have to worry for the people in it if they're all drones. #makeAAabitweakerplz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
295 Sir_Orrin Members 836 posts 5,480 battles Report post #6 Posted April 4, 2017 Is that like a fake person in the cockpit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
900 vonKaiser Alpha Tester 2,902 posts 6,252 battles Report post #7 Posted April 4, 2017 Is that like a fake person in the cockpit? Nah the remote navigation equipment could be removed and a cockpit installed so a pilot could take it up for test flights, make sure everything was in working order. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
637 [JFSOC] Murotsu Members 1,941 posts 8,585 battles Report post #8 Posted April 4, 2017 Yes. But, they proved pretty marginal. There were also problems with the technology of the era. Radio control had serious range limits and could be problematic under certain conditions causing loss of control. Television was a relatively new technology and picture quality was poor. The equipment was heavy and bulky and transmission of the pictures took considerable bandwidth. Then there's the fact this plane can barely manage to get over 100 mph with a 2,000 lbs. torpedo loaded on it. The later TDR was barely better. Even the widely deployed DASH helicopter drone for ASW work in the 60's had issues related to its electronics. This was a technology that was before its time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
4,053 [SYN] MrDeaf Members 16,027 posts 12,803 battles Report post #9 Posted April 5, 2017 IJN did several radio controlled ship experiments most of the major nations did radio controlled flight tests with the controls on another flight nearby Ohka was originally intended to be radio controlled Fritz-X was more successful Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
9 Scout1 Members 56 posts 2,382 battles Report post #10 Posted April 5, 2017 The Soviets also experimented with teletanks in the same decade - but as above posters noted, control problems were the main issue. It wasn't until the development of fly-by-wire systems and digital transmissions that true remote control technologies could come to fruition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
637 [JFSOC] Murotsu Members 1,941 posts 8,585 battles Report post #11 Posted April 7, 2017 (edited) IJN did several radio controlled ship experiments most of the major nations did radio controlled flight tests with the controls on another flight nearby Ohka was originally intended to be radio controlled Fritz-X was more successful The Japanese were hardly the only ones. The USS Utah was a radio controlled target ship. She was sunk at Pearl Harbor mistakenly taken to be a battleship... Aviators are notoriously bad at ID'ing ships... The USN used the BAT guided missile / glide bomb towards the end of the Pacific War in much the same capacity as the German Fritz X or Hs 293. It used either semi-active radar homing or television command guidance for homing. Edited April 7, 2017 by Murotsu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
227 [SPTR] SullyQuindarius Members 2,462 posts 3,993 battles Report post #12 Posted April 8, 2017 The Japanese were hardly the only ones. The USS Utah was a radio controlled target ship. She was sunk at Pearl Harbor mistakenly taken to be a battleship... Aviators are notoriously bad at ID'ing ships... The USN used the BAT guided missile / glide bomb towards the end of the Pacific War in much the same capacity as the German Fritz X or Hs 293. It used either semi-active radar homing or television command guidance for homing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
227 [SPTR] SullyQuindarius Members 2,462 posts 3,993 battles Report post #13 Posted April 8, 2017 She kinda was a Battleship. Just an old one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
