If the “pilot” is controlling the plane romotely, then the plane can be hacked and turned against our soldiers on the ground. No thanks.
That is a risk, and it may be exploited some day. It is also one that has been on my mind since I first heard of the predator test flights.
Every system has it’s potential risks, but they are weighed and mitigated against the impact and likelihood of those risks being realized.
The benefits are huge while the risk seems to have been successfully mitigated so far. I wondered why it was hard to break the security until I found out they get their instructions from satelites. Apparently they are selectively blind to anything coming from the ground so the key to hacking them is taking out the satellites. That may be off in the future, and by then we may have measures to deal with it.
Then again, you never know.