Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Fighter Pilots Fading Away

Strategy Page is reporting that top brass at the Pentagon have concluded the century-long era of the fighter pilot will soon be over.

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The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (a navy admiral and the senior military guy in the Pentagon) and his boss (the Secretary of Defense) have both said that the F-35 (above) will probably be last American manned combat aircraft."

Technology has evolved to the point that in the forseeable future, fighter planes and bombers will be UAVs - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.