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To: Mariner

For the number of actual strikes any F-35 may ever partake, drones can supply as much precision and far less cost.


24 posted on 08/05/2016 7:44:32 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad
"For the number of actual strikes any F-35 may ever partake, drones can supply as much precision and far less cost."

I heartily agree.

Seems there's a political dimension to the design of aircraft and a decided bias toward manned aircraft with discernment and feelings.

That said we have expendable, precision strike/standoff weapons in the Tomahawk cruise missile fired from ships, subs and ground.

30 posted on 08/05/2016 7:50:08 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: CodeToad
"For the number of actual strikes any F-35 may ever partake, drones can supply as much precision and far less cost."

Concur. I was reading somewhere, that this will be the last manned fighter/bomber. It takes a long time to build an aircraft this complex and the time to train pilots is a long time. Flight school is just the beginning for pilot competence.

36 posted on 08/05/2016 8:01:18 PM PDT by fini
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To: CodeToad

For the number of actual strikes any F-35 may ever partake, drones can supply as much precision and far less cost.


Reliance on remote control drones can have it’s downsides, as we learned with the LMCO RQ-170 drone the Iranians hijacked.


69 posted on 08/05/2016 10:21:49 PM PDT by rdcbn ("There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alt)
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