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Old 12-05-2012, 02:08 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch View Post
Drones don't carry the payload capability to be effective for close troop support. For survailance and individual target sets absolutely, but Drones are not good on call battle field support weapons platforms.

They are also a single weapon platform carrying for example a maverick missile.

On top of that the first thing to go in a battle field will be communications with the Russians and Chinese heavily researching how to knock out drone data lonks.

Drones are not an alternative to fighters and fighter bombers at this time.
Would what the Russians and Chinese are researching knockout data links between manned fighters as well? You've done a good job selling the F35, just a shame it's coming in so over budget. Do you think 65 us enough?
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