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Message: [QUOTE="Gravelbelly, post: 10549692, member: 837"] Two points, but I'm not sure how much you comprehend them: [LIST] [*]that line comes from the PR person who wrote the press release, and is not a direct quote from the staff or engineers involved [*]"uncrewed" is very definitely not the same as "autonomous". Having all the radar emissions coming from a UAV a few miles away*, and the resulting data handed back over a datalink; is an incremental step in survivability, not a huge leap forward in warfare. [/LIST] * It puts a price on aircrew lives, mind you - yes, you can use a smaller / cheaper radar if it's going to be closer to the enemy; but a decent fighter aircraft radar isn't a cheap piece of kit (twenty years ago it was seven figures, unless you're mass-producing them), and very definitely isn't something you regard as an expendable item. [/QUOTE]