Indeed, in fact I think future air defense will be a drone cloud. When there is a threat launch 100K drones and they form a cloud, as radar tracks the threat, the drones converge on a set of coordinates then the one close by explode on command creating a cloud of AI aimed shrapnel. After the threat is gone the undetonated drones land back in their storage locations and recharge wirelessly.
F35 or IKEA Fighter
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Canada is mostly guarding against artic incursion, not sure there is a drone swarm that would be able to do that over the artic.
Developing drones to safeguard Arctic sovereignty | Queen's Gazette https://share.google/WZ3hhNE1IDOEaOye8
NATO Countries Race to Develop Arctic Drones Before Russia Does - Business Insider https://share.google/2kCA76U2yUYoyLZ8H
Already happening.
it wasn’t in Tehran.
a larger issue is cooperative combat aircraft, which are unmanned airframes they fly autonomously (drones) or in partnership with the F35, F47 (NGAD), and B21.
Until the F-35 is tested against Russia or China, etc., we’ll never know how good it is.
They go up against countries who operate obsolete equipment with overwhelming firepower and then use that to tell you how amazing and undefeatable their technology is.
Remember what happened to the F-117 Nighthawk?
Shot down by an obsolete 1960s Soviet air defence system.
All stealth aircraft can be brought down. Difficult but not impossible.
Especially if you are going up against the S-400 or the S-500.
And when that happens, you are 150M in the hole for each. lol.
