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Originally Posted by August
He's saying it's cheaper to use existing aircraft than build new ones.
The problem is that a remotely piloted F-16 will still have the same strengths and weaknesses versus a remotely piloted MiG-29 as they did when humans were aboard. Nothing really changes here.
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Thank you August;
One overlooked possible factor with unmanned cheap rehabs is the lack of finesse possible, No need to dogfight, just RAM when all else fails. And then ... launch a new rehab(after lunch) from the desert boneyard! That MIG may not out-perform an F-16 but the kamikaze threat will deter any mission considerably. Axiom 2: 'numbers have cachet of their own'; an outnumbered F-16 may get a few in a distance standoff missile-wise but something WILL get through. The Germans learned this first hand at Kursk when their superior tanks were simply rammed by Russian T-34 tanks-and the great 'defense war' back to Berlin started.
