Military drone pilots know those feelings of adrenaline and anxiety.
Not exact matches
Despite playing such a pivotal role in the counterterrorism strategy of the U.S., there's a surprising lack of public information about
drones — pilotless
military aircrafts that are controlled autonomously by computers or remote
pilots.
New York has also deployed
military police, National Guard soldiers, state troopers,
drone pilots and experts from the Port Authority and Power Authority to Puerto Rico, as well as four helicopters.
Early passenger services might include
pilots assisted by AI co-
pilots — a «mixed mode» approach that Singh helped develop for the U.S.
military's «Transformer» project (which more recently morphed into Lockheed Martin's ARES project) to build a
drone that could carry cargo or wounded soldiers.
Mirren is lent excellent support by the late Alan Rickman, playing the
military man whose job it is to convince a reluctant Prime Minister (Jeremy Northam) to green - light the action, and Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) as the conscientious
drone pilot who will take physical responsibility for the strike.
Gavin Hood not only directed EYE IN THE SKY, the erstwhile actor also took a small role as a
military officer overseeing
drone pilots.
We also meet a higher up in the British
military, one Lt. General Frank Benson (Rickman) the American
drone pilot, Steve Watts (Paul), his co-
pilot Carrie Gershon (Phoebe Fox), an agent on the ground (Barkhad Abdi), as well as a little girl in Kenya.
Video gamer and daredevil dirt bike rider Arlo Santiago is recruited by the U.S.
military at White Sands to
pilot drone missions in Pakistan.
This combination of monotony and the intensity of the experience has led to a worrisome exodus of hundreds of
drone pilots, a situation the
military is actively seeking to address through new recruitment and training programs.