02-28-2013, 04:26 PM
G.Irish Wrote:Yeah honestly if I was the SecDef I'd dramatically curtail the JSF program and push for some high performance drones to fill the gap. It might take 10 years for a super drone to come online but each one could potentially cost a lot less than a F-35. You could build it to turn way harder than any human pilot could endure and you could build several of them for the cost of one F-35. If I were China I would be feverishly be trying to be build such a drone right now.
Well, if I were SecDef, I'd use this Trillion Dollar Overrun Too Big to Fail project to mask the costs of an F35-based combat drone.
With all the (admittedly pretty advanced) electronics in the F35, seems like it would be child's play to drone-ify and have the first Air Superiority/Interdiction Drone ready to fight. A "combat team" of 2 manned F35's and 3 remote-flown drones would be AWESOME.
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