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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
That's what I'm saying. Get rid of pilot planes like the f22, f35, etc and other fighter planes, use missiles and lasers to defend against aircraft, use missiles and drones to attack enemy installations and troops. Using pilot planes reminds me of the insistence WWI generals had for house mounted cavalry and mass front line attacks against machine guns.
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But drones aren't just some new weapon like a machine gun or a longbow Neal. Taking the human out of the equation does provide some advantages but it also introduces some pretty significant weaknesses too.
For one thing is the potential for an enemy to jam or hack the control signalling. That's a lot easier to do than stop a determined human pilot.
The way I figure it we'll need both drones and human piloted aircraft for a long time, maybe forever, lest we find our missiles and drones useless or worse co-opted used against us.