The Air Force, looking four decades into the future, sees unmanned air vehicles per-forming automated takeoffs Band landings, independently avoiding bad weather, aircraft, and threats. UAVs will fly alongside manned aircraft often as wingmen, executing autonomous tasks such as employing air-to-air or air-to-ground weapons while penetrating dense air defense networks. A single pilot may control multiple UAVs to allow the unmanned aircraft to swarm an adversary's forces.
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