They're getting downvoted for lots of good reasons and linking to the production of a relatively unsophisticated and disposable loitering munition and then talk

They're getting downvoted for lots of good reasons and linking to the production of a relatively unsophisticated and disposable loitering munition and then talking about air-warfare does not help. To name a few: 1) Drones do not have the superhuman capabilities that people who know nothing about aircraft design seem to think they have. Removing the pilot does not let you pull more Gs because almost all aircraft are structurally limited. If you try to pull 30Gs in a fighter sized aircraft the wings will fall off. If you make a limited AI which can do specific tasks better than a human then you just stick it in a fighter which ALSO has a human in it to cover the other parts which the AI sucks at. 2) Drones with the same capabilities as manned aircraft are not actually cheaper than manned aircraft. They have all the same expensive parts and they're the same size. 3) Until human-level AI becomes available drones are strongly limited by communications meaning that a drone fighter is about the same cost, but less capable. 4) You cannot just replace expensive systems with swarms of cheap systems. Smaller aircraft with fewer of the expensive systems are fundamentally lacking capabilities meaning that for many tasks they cannot do the job, full stop. A lancet is not 1/10000 as good as a B-2 at attacking a target 2000 miles away because it does not have the range to get there. If you put a cheap numerous system up against an expensive system which the cheap system has literally zero capacity to engage, it doesn't matter how many of the cheap system you throw at the fight, they won't win. This is why expensive systems which can operate with complete superiority tend to end up being more economical overall in warfare. As the saying goes, there's nothing more expensive than having the world's second best air-force. Not having your aircraft blown up is typically preferable, even if they were cheap. Cheap drones have their place but they do not replace existing high-end systems.