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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by scotty79 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:13AM (#20172237)
> ... suitable replacement for the ageing A-10. It's the finest close support aircraft ever made ...

I'm actually quite happy that they are focusing on theoretical weapon F35, not a practical upgrade to a practical weapon.

I'm hoping theoretical weapon will be used less. I think modern weaponary is so muderous that we should be focusing more on its role as a deterrent (in which being hyperadvanced might help) not the practical aspects (how efficiently it helps people to kill people when in use).

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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by Gibbon1 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @04:44AM (#20172842)
Be happy. The F35's going to be used about 2/3 less because it costs about three times more to fly.
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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by hutzlibu on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:54AM (#20173510)
Yes, thats why more and more drones will be the cheap replacement. And in a not so distant future .. we might probably see a swarm of cheap drones just overwhelm that awesome F35
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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by ceejayoz on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:41AM (#20174185)
Part of the goal of the F-35 is to serve as a mini-AWACS command and control aircraft for groups of drones.
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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by CapricornNoble on Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:59PM (#20176685)
A big reason why casualty rates in wars have steadily declined is BECAUSE modern weaponry is so efficient.
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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by scotty79 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:55PM (#20178073)
Just own casualties or total casualties on both sides of the conflict?
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Re:The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious, unrepo... by CapricornNoble on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:16AM (#20194104)
Total casualties. Even civilian "collateral damage" casualties are like an order of magnitude lower than they were in WW2. Bombing raids used to kill tens of thousands of civilians in a single night. Bombs were so inaccurate the only way to ensure you hit the target was to employ them en masse.

Now, we can hit a single building with a handful of guided bombs or cruise missiles and civilian losses are typically in the double digits.

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