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Old 10th Feb 2012, 16:06
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orca
 
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I have first hand experience of manned and unmanned working brilliantly as a team.

My strengths were weapon fit and SA of the battlefield - I had a big transparency to look through, not a drinking straw. The drone chap was able to chat to CAOC for ROE issues and track discrete targets that I couldn't, he and his buddies could also be on station for hours when I was asleep and they stayed out there after the job was done and I reached 'urine crit'.

Once you got your head around the fact that the drone's voice was actually coming from thousands of miles away, and that he was relaying information from decision makers hundreds of miles in the other direction it all worked swimmingly.
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