[TheOtherHobbes]

How many cheap, disposable, locally-networked drone-bombs could you make for the price of an F-35? How many could you make by spending 1% of the $1Tr tag the F-35 program has cost?

Manned planes are the cavalry of the 21st century. They're glamorous and dashing, but also insanely high maintenance.

On-board AI will only get better. And you only need one kill from a disposable unit to take out a manually-flown enemy.

[lukifer]

> On-board AI will only get better.

The fact that this terrifies so few people terrifies me.

[rsync]

Careful ... that's a dangerous line of reasoning ...

Pretty soon, some one will ask "how many teachers could we hire" or "how many roads could we fix" for the price of "the war" ...

[touristtam]

or maybe how many families could get full health insurance ....