but Jane, you're forgetting
Things like Taranis and the X-47B will be AUTONOMOUS UAVs
Basically fire and forget missiles that come back for a payload refill.
They'll even refuel and land on carrier decks without human input. All that needs to be done is for someone to mark the "x" for targetting on Google maps and away it goes!
Global Hawk's not so far from being autonomous now, unless you want real-time search enabled - which means someone deciding where to look next...
Now if you really want to be sensible about this, all these new tankers could easily be remotely controlled. However they WOULD need the Sony generation to put them in the right place - but just imagine how long you could keep a tanker on location.
You've never flown a combat aeroplane, or been involved in the complexities of UAVs have you?