
From CNN:
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Unmanned aircraft likely represent the future for U.S. military aviation, with next-generation bombers and fighter planes operating without pilots onboard, the top U.S. military officer said Thursday.
"We're at a real time of transition here in terms of the future of aviation, and the whole issue of what's going to be manned and what's going to be unmanned," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing.
"I think we're at the beginning of this change," Mullen said when asked about plans for developing a new bomber aircraft.
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