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To: Nowhere Man

But the UAV’s are manned to an extent. It’d be one ground pilot against another. My feeling is that when your plane is out of missiles what are you left with? Guns. And the one who is up on ACM will win the day.


41 posted on 02/07/2012 6:19:21 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Never Have Regrets Because At The Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted")
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To: SkyDancer
But the UAV’s are manned to an extent. It’d be one ground pilot against another. My feeling is that when your plane is out of missiles what are you left with? Guns. And the one who is up on ACM will win the day.

True, that's why they mounted a 20mm machine gun into the F-4 because once your missiles are gone, that's it. I know most UAV's are remotely controlled now, the downside is with a radio signal, thy can be jammed, skyjacked or just plain hacked into.
56 posted on 02/08/2012 1:39:52 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Holodeck Computer: End Obama Administration simulation program, NOW!!!!)
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