[gaijin]

The survivability probably goes like this:

A piloted sample arrives in the general target area with his 6 drone comrades. He sizes things up, then sends in his drone brethren to perform the actual attack.

Then he goes home with however many survive that attack.

[Darteaus94025]

Exactly! The future of warfare belongs to the outfit that builds the deadliest drones that can behave as cooperative swarms.