re: drones
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Gwynne Dyer hit the nail on the head:
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.
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.
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.
The article mentions the Iranian Qasef 2 UAV but over on the Mil forum they are showing wreckage from the Quds 1 cruise missile. Very different weapons and no sign of the Qasef 2 having been used..........
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Visionary writers would do well to remember that far from being a scene from a science fiction movie - the raid on Saudi was actually entirely reminiscent of V1 attacks on London some 75 years ago.
The accuracy with which the oil refinery tanks were hit was something the V1's designer's could only have dreamed of achieving.
