ASAP autonomous air-to-air refuel!
The can is a drone TOO..! We need that anyway.
Reach goal —make the can STEALTHY!
We’ll just keep the drones on patrol constantly —no more egressing with ord still on the racks..!
That would sure be more efficient and surely kill more terrorists!
It’s a weird blessing in disguise. Right now we have Predators that ingress for hours, have but 2 shots, and then must eeeeeegress for hours —very high fly/pop ratio. I mean hey, many times they don’t even get a target, and that means allllll that gas for nothing, or just a lot of cam time to plough through.
Our reapers should go out —maybe just one or several times over the course of months, and just keep buzzing around, out in one AO.
And then we get some huge stealthy mambo gas can that takes over that stupid ingress/egress role, servicing all those lethal cackling flying monkeys.
I do not even think the sensors and algorithm need be that complicated to allow for air 2 air refuel.
A REAL stretch would be air 2 air RE-ARM —sounds fanciful but my guess is that some day they’ll accomplish it.
The option is to not fly over their air space or if we do get the damned thing shot down. Why are we there anyway? NO NATION BUILDING!!! Close our border. Leave theirs alone!!!