Yes, that is one of the reasons for the infamous Triad. Why do we still have bombers when we have missiles? Bombers can be called back.

Wow, I think that rambling, barely intelligible letter filled with conspiracy theories speaks for itself. There's really only one point I want to hear from you more on, so I can know where people like you get your information. What payload of what drone do you think is mass destruction? I only ask because I work in…

I'm sorry, but you are factually incorrect.

First, drones are not currently capable of carrying huge payload, they can barely take off with 6 Hellfires, less than the firepower contained in a single Vietnam era Cobra helicopter.

Second, the delivery system is not a weapon. A B-52 is not a weapon. A B-2 is not a weapon.…

No, we still haven't added pilotability for one major reason. Cyber attacks. Right now the GH takes off with a series of pre-planned mission profiles. From a remote station we can switch between those profiles and change them around, but we can't edit them or add new ones. That way, it becomes much harder to, say,…

While I might have agreed to your initial comment, I can't think of anything dumber to spend the money on than lengthening out unemployment MORE. And that includes broken UAVs.

At AUVSI last year (the major drone conference) almost every drone on display was smaller than my cubical (and that's damn tiny!). So I don't know what you mean my "most". Perhaps "most... popularly discussed in the media". But most drones are small. Most drones in military service are small. Most drones being used…

Not quite. Drone is an all-encompassing term. An RPA has a pilot, that pilot just isn't in the aircraft. Predators and Reapers are RPAs. UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), like the Global Hawk, don't have pilots. They fly on a set of pre-programmed instructions.

Drones are not WMDs (note the spelling). WMDs are capable of destroying entire populations with a single action.

The validity of the use of drones in modern warfare can be debated, but drones are NOT WMDs.

Hi, I'm in the USAF, and in an office where this problem is discussed. The biggest reason we don't have unmanned bombers?

Nukes.

We just really just want a person at the controls if it comes time to press the big read button. And we want the connection to that big red button not to be wireless. I hope the reasons are…

MILWAUKEE, WI - JANUARY 7: Travis Olesak (R) helps jump start Dan Couillard's (L) vehicle as temperatures remain in the negative digits on January 7, 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A 'polar vortex' of frigid air centered on the North Pole dropped temperatures to the negative double digits at its worst. (Photo Credit:…

Yes. Yes it is.

Actually, they didn't know that. There was a plausible theory that anything that had that much energy shaped itself similarly to a hurricane, with a survivable eye in the middle. Tests like these were done to look into the validity of that theory. While it's obvious to us now, it was far from it in the heyday of…

Hey, you look sharp! Sharper than I did in CAP, or ROTC, or now, on Active Duty!

Correction. You were in JROTC. You didn't incur an active duty service commitment.

During the blizzard of 2006-07 in Colorado I was on the Search and Rescue team that coordinated the rescuing of everyone on the highways in the state who tried to "beat the storm" on their way to grandma's house. We airlifted out 35 stranded drivers in one day. Not a Coloradan among them.

You can only buy the new cars from one source, the government. So naturally, they set the prices as high as they want to. Tends to happen when the government controls the market.

Yeah she's talking with COR now. Personal problems are minimal compared to the massive amount of fail this employee calls "work".

That's good to hear. I'm an AF officer, and I told her that's how it works here if she wants him terminated (she does). Hearing it from another source helps. Hopefully the same is true where she works, NASA. They aren't DoD, but I expect contracting rules are pretty similar.

My wife is having this problem with a member of her engineering team. Unfortunately, it's compounded by the fact that he's a contractor, and she's a government civilian. She's basically not allowed to do anything about it.

I too noticed this, and found it very... self-satisfying? Like "oh well of course we Deadspin readers already recall that gem of writer's block, and need no linking or reminding." I feel very royal now. Thank you.