To: citizen
Some are, some are not. Predators are still in use, they are remote piloted.
I'd be willing to bet that autonomous drones are not that widely used.
157 posted on
03/15/2026 4:40:24 PM PDT by
GingisK
To: GingisK
A remote, human piloted drone is an expensive operation all around. The is how the US military used to think of drone usage. Now the current is the Uke war model and Iran's usage of mass drone flights that cheaply overwhelm expensive anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems. That's the info on today's TV & internet coverage.
164 posted on
03/15/2026 4:59:27 PM PDT by
citizen
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To: GingisK
I’m not saying, of course, that the US military is not using, and using well, large, piloted drones carrying a large munition precisely delivered and then retrieved for usage again.
It’s just that in the mass drone scenario, they are cheap ($20-40k) and expendable. I-ran reportedly has thousands of them
165 posted on
03/15/2026 5:05:35 PM PDT by
citizen
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