Will Drones Make Fighter Pilots Obsolete?

A pilot's display in a ground control station (Image from The Daily Mail)

From ABC News:

If you think drone aircraft are all the rage at the U.S. Air Force, just wait a few years. The men in the Pentagon who look into the future believe UAVs -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or pilotless planes -- are the future.

Comparing today's drones to the development of manned military flight, "we are in the 1920s," said Lt. Gen. David Deptula. He spoke at a Defense Department briefing looking 30 years into the future.

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My Comment: Short answer .... yes. But there will always be fighter pilots and manned fighter jets .... just not as many as what we have now.

Another big factor that will make unmanned drones unstoppable in their development and production is their economies of scale. An F-35 costs hundreds of millions of dollars .... a drone much (much) less.

You do the math.