To: Little Pig
... but theyre not as likely to be.
If jamming is the countermeasure against the platform, then it will be used. I am not saying that UCAVs do not have a place in air combat; they do. Personally, I see them as cannon fodder against a layered air defense system or as a first wave against a larger force. UCAVs would be part of the force mix. Cruise missles didn't replace bombers as their early boosters predicted, but they did come to fill a niche and became part of the weapons system mix.
18 posted on
12/21/2011 9:34:58 PM PST by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
You are correct and perhaps they’ll supplement the existing fighter forces. Though this line from the article is a bit deceptive: “dramatically shown the limitations of such systems”. What the recent events in Iran show is a breakdown, not of the UCAV system in a technical sense, but the breakdown of the system in a political sense. We knew about the potential for this attack as well as the software problems. It just never was corrected. Why?
35 posted on
12/22/2011 4:44:08 AM PST by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
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