[FreedomStar3028]

What in the world would they need this for?

There isn’t an air force on Earth that would require 500 drones capable of firing air to air missiles to deal with.

[UCANSEE2]

We just keep making cooler and cooler ways to kill each other.

[Dogbert41]

I have an idea!

Make these flying spheres that go for the head. Then they drill in...

[Bobalu]

The future of warfare is unmanned everything.

Encrypted and un-jammable communications is gonna be VITAL!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So the drone can carry two missiles 230 miles at relatively low speed before they are launched. The drone plus two missiles would add HUGE drag to the mother fighter seriously degrading its performance and range.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to increase the missile range by 230 miles and skip the drone entirely? This doesn’t add up.

[txnativegop]

why are images of “SkyNet” from the Terminator flashing before my eyes?

Human Beings are positive control; mindless machines can

malfunction at precisely the wrong moment with potentially

catastrophic results.

[jonrick46]

All will be rendered useless with EMP.

[ThunderSleeps]

Ok, keep it simple:

• Small - uses less resources per unit
• Piston engine - turbines are expensive, complicated, longer to manufacture, harder to maintain
• No exotic materials - keep it cheap, conventional supply chain
• Simple parts/components - stampings, conventional welds or bolts for ease of manufacture by multiple sources
• COTS computers and flight hardware
• COTS radios

With these kinds of design constraints you're not going to get eye-watering performance or range. Of course the tendency lately has been to take a concept like this, then complicate the h*ll out of it, and end up with something that is in development for years working the kinks out and costs too much to build more than a few of... They'll need a strong PM to stick to the original concept of operations and keep such a vehicle relatively simple and cheap.