Cause and Effect

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are relatively new to the battlefield. Because of this, the training required for a soldier to pilot these vehicles is very basic. The time it takes to be "certified" to fly these aircraft is vastly smaller than Manned Aircraft. This aircraft and of the "cockpit" that the pilot flies it from is also relatively crudely designed with some major flaws only now becoming apparent.

Due to these before mentioned problems, these aircraft has a lot of obstacles to overcome. Numerous crashes and accidents involving these aircraft have been reported. Most of these accidents are due to pilot error which is mostly caused from insufficient flight training. Some of these accident, however, are due to major design flaws. One case in particular is that the "kill switch" and the landing gear switch were positioned right next to each other and a pilot mistook one for the other. The result was a catastrophic crash instead of a routine landing. I submit that these problems need to be addressed and fixed before the UAV can indefinitely claim air dominance in todays wars.