You still need to communicate with a drone, wasn’t there a story about Taliban intercepting and watching drone feeds in pakistan? If we assume space superiority then it would work, but in any true conflict between developed countries in the future satellites will get swatted out in the first few hours probably
I nice directional EMP would take care of those, I would imagine.
I think these are really cool. And anything that keeps our folks from getting whacked, will be great.
My guess is that the pilots of these craft would not have to retire if their eyes went bad, or if their reflexes degraded a bit—which means we would have many more experienced pilots. And if you screw up, you are not dead. Very nice.