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It's going to wind up being how cheap can we make this drone to loiter with 1 missile attached? Cheap enough? Cool, just let the litter the sky, anyone dumb eno
by techdragon 12y ago
It's going to wind up being how cheap can we make this drone to loiter with 1 missile attached? Cheap enough? Cool, just let the litter the sky, anyone dumb enough to try flying through will have to avoid detection or face instant death, so it will boil down to black stealth bombers only flying at night again, but even these will be drones.
- GVIrish 12y agoHonestly I think the drone approach is where the smart money is. You could build many, many jet-engined drones that can provide air support over a wide area and would be fairly difficult for anyone to shoot down. The cost per unit would be low enough that you wouldn't particularly care if you lose a few here and there. I have to think some nation is going to pursue the swarm of drones idea and once it's proven in combat the whole air power paradigm will shift.
- tsotha 12y agoAlmost everyone I talk to agrees on this point and thinks the F-22/F-35 is the last generation of manned fighters (in the US, anyway). There's quite a bit of disagreement on the timeline, though.