[cookcounty]

"A real danger is that some country that has enough industrial base to make cheap cars will start mass producing thousands of cheap UAVs, with the idea of an air armada overpowering their enemies’ small handful of ultra high tech aircraft."

Air combat going assymetrical is maybe something to take seriously.

If Japan launched 6,000 WWII Kamikaze Zeroes against a single current US carrier, what would happen?

[lentulusgracchus]

If Japan launched 6,000 WWII Kamikaze Zeroes against a single current US carrier, what would happen?

The carrier's rail gun, missile batteries, and Phalanx would get pretty warm, but it's doubtful that the opposing authority could organize such an atack sufficiently to keep his a/c from running into one another, and still achieve coordination sufficient to defeat the lightning-fast defensive weapons. (Which isn't even considering what the fighter cap could do.)