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And how much does a drone and a drone hour cost?

• stcredzero 8y ago
  Even so, what if China responds with their own drones and takes advantage of their higher sortie rates?
  • AWildC182 8y ago
    ^there we go. I forgot to mention this. Sortie rates favor the defender if the attacker is far enough away. If A and B have 10 planes each and A's planes take 1 hour to kill something but B's planes take 2, A will win even with a significant technological disadvantage because you have to kill half their fleet before you reach parity.
• AWildC182 8y ago
  Vs a piloted aircraft? The difference is there but not in the realm of 2:1. As more tech gets loaded on them I suspect they'll reach parity with manned systems. The issue isn't so much wartime cost but the fleet cost as a whole. You get X drones from your budget and they cost a lot of money to maintain (not dissimilar to manned aircraft) so you can't always just have enough to make up for time in transit.
  • stcredzero 8y ago
    https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/boeings-wingman-drone-buddies-up-with-pilot-flown-jets/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/boeings-wingman-drone-budd...