The End of an Era: US Navy is giving up on fighter pilots & turning to drones

Aktungbby · 04-18-15, 10:01 AM

Nothing really new here if you think about it properly: Once you get past Von C's rule 1: "In all things be very strong", Rule 2 kicks in: for every expensive problem on the battlefield there is a cheap solution. Example: the highly-trained expensive mounted knight on horseback -solution 'give that illiterate peasant a musket!' The peasant isn't doing the fighting he's launching a 'drone' piece of lead to do the job. Got an entire nation that won't surrender and a million casualty list expectation to invade-Japan...send EnolaGay and Bock'sKar, two B29's, with an atomic bomb each to solve that problem. Were already killing terrorists in white Toyota's with Hellfire equipped drones;

this is more of the same. College grads are expensive, take 25 years to grow and require pensions, and flying bombers is tedious at best...at least they'll need 'fighter jocks' for dogfights.

04-18-15, 10:01 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,031 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Nothing really new here if you think about it properly: Once you get past Von C's rule 1: "In all things be very strong", Rule 2 kicks in: for every expensive problem on the battlefield there is a cheap solution. Example: the highly-trained expensive mounted knight on horseback -solution 'give that illiterate peasant a musket!' The peasant isn't doing the fighting he's launching a 'drone' piece of lead to do the job. Got an entire nation that won't surrender and a million casualty list expectation to invade-Japan...send EnolaGay and Bock'sKar, two B29's, with an atomic bomb each to solve that problem. Were already killing terrorists in white Toyota's with Hellfire equipped drones; this is more of the same. College grads are expensive, take 25 years to grow and require pensions, and flying bombers is tedious at best...at least they'll need 'fighter jocks' for dogfights. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!