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Various militaries in the world are testing autonomous UCAVs
These are unmanned, autonomous combat aircraft.
As we know flying in to harms way is a high risk business, that is why bombs are released from aircraft and not flown kamikaze style into the target. Therefore cruise missiles had been developped to navigate some distance through high threat areas and finally hit the target without putting the aircrew at risk. UCAV's are just the logical progress to extend the range, endurance and mode of operations of those high risk missions. They operate well in those specialized tasks, but as surface to air missiles could not replace manned fighter aircraft drones will not replace them either.
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These aircraft must find must take-off (from a carrier in this case) navigate, find and kill the enemy, navigate home and then land on.
No beacons, no radio control, no atc, no TCAS.
There are other missions like surveilance and reconnisance missions, where long endurance over the area of interest is better done with sattelites or unmanned vehicles, the army starts to use robots in their field of responsibility for those tasks.
But what has that to do with commercial air traffic?
While the motive of the forces is to be able to conduct missions not suitable for manned aircraft while risking the loss of those vehicles and accepting collateral damage in a war time scenario, disregarding costs for development, operation and possible higher loss rates due to mission requirement, commercial air traffic has completely different goals and the use of unmanned aircraft would have the only purpose to save money on human resources without loosing safety, flexibility, and reliability of their operations.
If you want to advocate the pilotless airline operations of the future, i think you have to do it without using the forces as valid example.