A Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout UAV strayed into restricted airspace above Washington DC after departing Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland on August 2, the result of a software logic flaw that caused the operator to momentarily lose contact with the drone. Programmed to circle when communications are severed, the chopper failed to follow its failure protocol, instead heading twenty-three miles on a north/northwest trajectory ...Sure we just lost control of it. Suuuure it wasn't hacked.
For a really interesting bit of fiction based around the future of autonomous and automatic warfare, I recommend diving into the Autumn Rain Trilogy.
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