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Re:Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video] by greedo on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @10:24AM (#7910244)
The last quote is for the Reaper, a new version of the Predator that costs 4x as much. $16m is much cheaper than a fighter jet, but when you start deploying them in swarms of 20:1 ratios, the numbers don't work.
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Re:Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video] by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @10:30AM (#7910282)
You're flailing around moving the goalposts at this point. The Predator/Reaper drones are more generalist platforms than you'd need for a disposable drone built around an air to air missile.
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Re:Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video] by branchan on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:45PM (#7913590)
You cannot just blindly put missiles on a drone without any radars or sensors. The current Predator platform should be how much it would cost...minimum.
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