Instead of airmen who must train thousand of hours at a cost of millions of dollars and risk their lives on every mission, you can have computer geeks sitting behind consoles tens of thousands of miles away from the theater of operation and take out bad guys and their installations at the click of a mouse.
Combat fighters are a proud lot with a long and honorable tradtion, but just like everybody else, they are going to be replaced by computers.
The Predator is just the beginning.
My point. The F-22 should be canceled.
And that's just
one thin line of options available
among the more mundane, conventional and . . . somewhat boring platforms available.
Yes, and they come in many varieties.