Highflyer,
Where you going to find a "drone" capable of carrying modern air-to-air missiles, all the electronics necessary to target and support them, the ability to operate those electronics (remotely or autonomously) and with all the hardware like engines, flight control system, links various, etc for a million quid? Not even close. Not even an order of magnitude out. How you going to operate air-to-air with a three second latency?
Or are you just going to launch a single (big) firework at some chaps on the ground? In which case your "drone" needs to be big enough to carry it, still needs and engine and associated stuff, guidance, control and links (good enough to to do high resolution vid in real time). Even Predator cost about 5 million a copy. Reaper, what, three times that, but that is big.
These things still need pilots. You may take him out of the cockpit,mbiut someone still needs to operate them. Not sure about the 1 million figure.
For both, a massive amount of bandwidth on satellite channels. Can you jam these signals?
You're not wrong Courtney -
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