Just change the rules of engagement for the drone operators and within one or two Russian jets crashing, this nonsense will stop.
“Just change the rules of engagement for the drone operators and within one or two Russian jets crashing, this nonsense will stop.”
The reason remotely controlled drones make bad fighter jets is engagements take place at close quarters and milliseconds count. The drone sends a signal to a satellite. The satellite sends the signal to another satellite. That satellite sends the signal to the ground. Even at the speed of light you’re talking seconds for this pathway and an equal amount of time for a responding command. In those seconds the two planes may have moved thousands of feet.
Likely the drone has not positively identified the approaching plane but only has a physical image or a radar return. So, whose plane are you shooting down? Is it even a military plane? When “the facts” are presented in an article the answer to shoot or not seems plain. But in the heat of the moment, I assure the answer is not obvious and the results might have ramifications the US would rather not deal with.