Originally Posted by
Ian W
Originally Posted by
ulrichw
To refute your absolute claims, I'd like to refer you to the following video which shows practice shoot-downs of drones by US Air National Guard planes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xISpZYajveA
In particular, look at the "kill" at 3:22 - the missile hit apparently releases and ignites a plume of fuel from the target drone, which initially burns brightly, and then turns into a puff of black smoke.
Well drones do not fly at 450kts at 30,000ft which is why the video looks wrong.
Well the drones in the video posted by
ulrichw may do - as they are converted F-4 Phantoms.