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If that is an issue surely the answer is more assisted drones. Better to have someone sitting in safety viewing a high def and possibly magnified camera output

• Jtsummers 13y ago
  Latency and mission. If you don't have line of sight with the drone, you've got multisecond latency on input, that's not suitable for fighter aircraft, though is not deal breaking for recon and air-to-ground (bombs or missiles). So fighter drones require the pilots to have line of sight to be effective in combat, which means you need control of ground or sea assets within range of the air combat theater. That's not a given in war. Though, at present, this is probably a given for the current activities of the US DOD, you can't base future planning on current conditions. That said, F-35 is a clusterfuck. Military contractors have had so little oversight, and are such terrible planners, (particularly of software) that most projects that depend on a significant software component are guaranteed to have cost and time overruns, with little repercussion except for the poor program manager that was thrown into the deep end and drowned.