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To: pleasenotcalifornia
The little one's are only good for recon or flying into the intakes of other aircraft.

But if one looks at the X-47B you can see the potential...2,100 NM range, in-flight refueling and a weapons bay for up to 4,500lbs of ordnance.

Unmanned and with the same controlability of the little guys.

And stealth.

You can probably put 8-12 AIM-120 AMRAAM's in the bay. On a rotary dispenser.

12 posted on 03/08/2016 9:56:25 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

When developed, each drone could probably carry a couple of small missiles. With each plane, it could effectively be fully loaded and have many dozens of extra missiles to boot under the pilot’s control.


13 posted on 03/08/2016 10:36:26 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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