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Old 25th Sep 2019, 20:01
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The big question that is finally going to be asked, in countries rich and poor, is why the air forces insist on buying ultra-expensive manned aircraft instead of flocks, swarms and fleets of small, cheap, disposable unmanned vehicles. The truth is that air forces are run by pilots, and they like to fly planes (sic), but what happened in Saudi Arabia last week will finally give the civilian authorities arguments that the aviators cannot resist or ignore.
There is a scene in Matrix2 where you had thousands of "drones" all flying about inside the main building the humans were in. Reality is swarms of something similar that could be released airborne from something like cluster missiles and could stay airborne for an hour or two would provide reasonable amount of defence.

Of course the next requirement will be a missile that produces an EMT burst before a secondary missile heads in and so on and so on.

The only people getting rich will be directors of arms manufacturers and taxpayer will get done to them what always happens.
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