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This is true for strategic strike (a bomber has the space for crew rest) and an absolute godsend for the Navy (CVW have lacked real organic tank options since t
by mandevil 7y ago
This is true for strategic strike (a bomber has the space for crew rest) and an absolute godsend for the Navy (CVW have lacked real organic tank options since the retirement of the S-3- note that CVW ASW is another mission where drones could be dramatic improvements) but I don't think that this will enable something as dramatic as a pull-out of Al Udeid. No one is going to want to be in a F-22 or F-35 for a combat flight from Diego Garcia to Mosul, and US strategic strike components are so limited that I can't see them bearing the full burden of something like OIR.
- hollerith 7y ago>Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military's operational name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
- aidenn0 7y agoIs ASW something the US military cares at all about anymore?
- greedo 7y agoYou'd need a much larger drone (volume wise) to carry sonobuoys. MAD gear is out of fashion so at least you don't have to compromise the airframe with that. I can't see a drone carrying a MK48 either.