David Spain writes:

I would suggest the Air Force seriously talk to the Navy about means
to land SS Jr. on a carrier. Of course I can just see the Air Bosses
freaking out about yeilding deckspace to an incoming USV being piloted
remotely by a wing wiper... Not on my watch Farce boy....

A more realizable senario, USAF and USN work out an interservice C&C protocol
for the USV.

USAF is responsible for launch, mid-course corrections, re-entry and UAV
deploy, whereupon USAF takes over control of UAV and hands off recovery of
USV to USN for carrier landing or USN station landing or maintains control
for USAF base landing.

And if the USN wants in on the cool parts, if they have a launch facility that
can handle the USV the roles can be reversed....

Everybody wins... Of course there'll be icicles forming in hell before I see
a practical interservice C&C protocol... Hoping I'm wrong.
Anybody got a good counter-example?

Dave