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To: Mariner
Plus 15 or 20-G turns in air combat or to evade a SAM are a lot easier when the pilot isn't there to complain that his neck just snapped.
30 posted on 07/15/2007 12:48:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: KarlInOhio
Plus 15 or 20-G turns in air combat or to evade a SAM are a lot easier when the pilot isn't there to complain that his neck just snapped.

Not with this one, you'd snap the wings off.

And it's slow, meat for anyone with real fighter planes, and not real maneuverable like the A-10 is. No Gun either. The Syrians and Iranians have real fighters for instance.

Still this is "just" a modified surveillance drone. The next generation will be able to do those things.

55 posted on 07/15/2007 4:22:12 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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