Exactly! The future of warfare belongs to the outfit that builds the deadliest drones that can behave as cooperative swarms.
Exactly.
People are missing the point, sort of.
I, too, adore the beefy, low-tech muscle of the A-10.
But this thing is a totally different animal:
I’d wager that even the drones that go in closer (after the command from the sole piloted nearby a/c) would probably stand-off a little and maybe use directed energy, or something small like Spike, or APKWS.
I think the real future lethality is in intensive digital platform teamwork.