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What if every fighter had a drone for a wingman?
Outside of it being able to pull of manuevers no human driven fighter could (sub 100m radius U-turns at Mach 3+) would it add any capabilities? What if it had kamikaze features?
What good would it do if a modern fighter had launchable long-range drones that could participate in combat as well as had their own warhead for an end-game instead of AAAM missiles?
why not just a big cargo plane that deploys a bunch of drones which are controlled by an AWACS
>>27956887
Something like a Protoss carrier ?
The drones would be too tiny to be usefull in any way.
>>27956887
Cargo plane should not go into contested airspace.
>>27956848
Yes, the idea of a fighter controlling multiple drones is a real concept that is being worked on.
However, the ability of drones to withstand higher g-forces is overhyped, because airframes and mechanical components also have limitations.
Drones would be very useful for detecting and suppressing air defenses without putting the pilot in harms way, and for acting as missile launch platforms.
>>27956907
>too tiny
Use a large dirigible as a launch vehicle. Nice and torus shaped with a launch frame in the middle.
Now the vehicles can be huge. And can be launched vertically, refueled by traditional means and can assist any pilot who asks.
>(sub 100m radius U-turns at Mach 3+)
>Mach 3+ 180 degree manuevers
Why don't airframes use small alcohol rockets for these tight manuevers at high speed?
And a cut off/cut on system for the main air breathing engines.
>>27956887
Pretty sure I have that Ace Combat somewhere...
>>27956907
>The drones would be too tiny to be usefull in any way.
There is no rule which says that drones must be small. The global hawk has a 1571 inch wingspan. That's bigger than the P8 Neptune.
>>27956943
>drone zepplins
Anon, stop, my dick can only get so hard...
>>27956907
What is MALD-J? What is JITSA Area Dominator?
>>27956928
G-limit for the average turbine engine is 20g.
Of course, the "drones maneuver better" argument is retarded anyway, because maneuvering isn't what wins aerial fights. Information does. Computers could hypothetically out-process humans, but presently, humans are superior integration solutions for data processing, and pushing them as far forward as possible maximizes information density and reaction time.
Drones can be large enough to carry their own AMRAAMs.
>>27956848
>sub 100m radius U-turns at Mach 3+
>10,000 Gs
>TEN
>FUCKING
>THOUSAND
You fighter-drone advocates are so fucking clueless it's ridiculous.
>What if it had kamikaze features?
Then it would be a missile.
>>27956928
>Cargo plane should not go into contested airspace.
They can and do.
>>27957010
>10,000 Gs
Why shouldn't we go for 1 MILLION Gs?
>>27956983
google and the fed have doing that that for a long time
