Originally posted by KurtMc
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For the past 10 years plus the airforce has had technology that will enable a bomb with wings to guide itself through a window from many tens of thousands of feet range. This capability is about to be expanded with JSOW-ER to tens of km (depending on the speed and altitude of release).
Many of the military drones fly (and land) themselves completely autonomously.
Both systems rely on differential GPS which is accurate to within something like 30cm. All you need is the exact co-ordinates of the airfield (or target in the case of the bomb) and any obstacles and the drone or bomb will fly itself there.
This is not particularly difficult, expensive or complicated technology.
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