A Reaper taxis prior to takeoff, Afghanistan, 2012, via USAF.
The Air Force's Love For Fighter Pilots Is Too Big To Fail -- Motherboard
You hear it often: The American war machine is not only going fully droned, if it hasn't already. Unmanned, remotely-piloted spy-and-kill craft, this line of thinking goes, have now so thoroughly infiltrated US armed forces that it's only a matter of time before the joystick warriors, of which there are more currently being trained than conventional pilots, replace yesteryear's fly girls and boys once and for all.
It's a fairly compelling refrain, especially now that "war" takes the shadowy shape of lethal operations as endless as they are borderless. But too bad it really doesn't hold water, at least not yet.
Just look at what's been going on throughout the Air Force. It's as if drones pose such a threat to traditional means of aerial warfare that the flying service's historically kneejerk resistance to anything too closely aligned with sweeping technological change finds it bristling today at prospective gamechangers of the unmanned sort.
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My Comment: In short .... the U.S. Air Force has put all it's eggs into one basket .... and that basket is the F-35.
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