Posted on 07/25/2025 9:05:30 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
I've always been a fan of Windows "Bob" personally
But I digress...
Let us say we need to know about Enemy Base and probably need to take something out on or near Enemy Base.
A stealth reconnaissance drone can be sent to fly over the area of Enemy Base.
The stealth reconnaissance drone can relay targeting data by say laser to a missile that is flown safely many miles high over Enemy Base at the same time. Remember a human pilot only sees what his eyes can see looking out of the cockpit and at LED screens. The missile (with help) can relay targeting information back to a command center.
A warhead missile that was sent to arrive at the area of Enemy Base shortly thereafter can then be targeted by the command center. The warhead missile might be launched from a fairly cheap stand-by/stand-off aircraft.
The stealth reconnaissance drone, targeting information relay missile(s) and warhead missile would all be fairly cheap by Pentagon standards.
Maybe China but Israel roaming freely over Syrian and Iranian skies suggest Russian AD isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
“It was designed and built for air warfare in Europe. It doesn’t have the legs for a Pacific war, where unrefueled ranges of 1000+ miles are needed.”
Then let Taiwan pay to develop the F-47 or let Taiwan buy a lot of F-35s and build robust concrete hangers near straight paths of Taiwanese roads.
Perhaps we could build islands in Philippine waters Chinese-style for less cost than F-47 development and procurement.
Yep. Whoever wrote that article must be clueless.
Seemed to do OK for the IDF over Iran
I have a romantic love for the A-10.
But against any enemy more sophisticated than Arabs, it’s just a flying titanium coffin.
They can’t keep the most recent MIG in the air because its tech is 1980’s vintage.
I think the F35 would do just fine.
Another piece of FRussian propaganda.
A first stealth reconnaissance drone could fly very close to Enemy Base with infrared sensing.
A second stealth reconnaissance drone could fly say 2000 feet away from Enemy Base with human eye wavelength and radio band sensing.
A third reconnaissance drone could fly say a few miles away from Enemy Base with active radar probing.
That's why you take the pilot out, and make it a drone.
Something or Someone has to control those drones. That’s what the F-47 is for.
The F-47 is not a replacement for the F-35 (AKA Fat Amy). F-47 will replace the F-22 as the top air dominance interceptor/fighter. Makes sense since the tool and die for the F-22 was destroyed after the last plane came off the line. They are going to improve the F-35 with possibly a new larger airframe for more fuel range and a second engine. Existing F-22’s are allegedly already testing drone command capabilities that will go in the F-47.
Lol. I started reading and got to the point where the article is propaganda humping a new weapon system and I thought to myself “This must be that MIC mouthpiece the National Security Journal” and looked and yup. It’s the Raytheon/General Dynamics propaganda blog again. Some Defense pimps with a hifalutin name for their gibmedats blog.
The F-22 is a QB, and is about to get autonomous/slaved drones as “loyal wingman” program ramps up.
And, if one really believes that China who really hasn’t developed anything technological since Nixon “opened the East” but have stolen just about every intellectual property (IP) they can lay their hands on from the last 60 years is on par with the F-35 or F-22, then you need to put the reefer down, man.
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