• Question: What are the downsides to Watchkeeper (enviromental issues/expense/accidents)?

    Asked by meganl56 to James on 13 Mar 2012.
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      James Vokes answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I’ll be honest: not everyone’s happy with the Army using more UAVs. They think that with the drones becoming more and more automated that more and more mistakes can happen and there might be accidents with weapons. Fortunately Watchkeeper isn’t armed and is just used for surveillance. It still requires a human to make to final decision.

      As for environmental aspects, I can’t say unfortunately. I don’t really have any dealing with production. I’m in the dark on it all.

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