Posted on 09/28/2018 4:00:10 PM PDT by SleeperCatcher
Well, batter up, then! Put them in Syria. Let’s see what they can do. ;-D
I would think that we should develop (or have developed) a large pilotless drone that once over enemy territory spews smaller drones over a large landscape. Just to drive the defense system crazy. OK, you say, but the S-500 can differentiate weapons in flight. I respond the smaller drones spewed should be armed with the equivalent of an IED. It would also be possible to program them in like fashion as a cruise missile. Then you say, this will create the need for many more operations types out in Navada (or elsewhere). And I say, you have thousands of kids that would never join the military but would join the space corps to blow things up.
A skilled crew can detect stealth aircraft with older SAM systems. It’s a fact! Stealth platforms still have a radar return. They are not invisible. Do Russian, Chinese, Syrian, etc...crews have the skills necessary to do it? Not likely.
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