Canada armed drones

Hoid

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Because it's informal. It's idiot speak.
It's a common definition of a word widely used to mean pilotless aircraft.

The ridiculous shit you choose to argue about is hilarious.
 

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There are no dogfights anymore.
Too much Top Gun.
No dog fights because it's been two-three generations since great power airforces met in combat. DO NOT expect that situation to last forever.

The Taliban nor ISIS have fighter planes.
 

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I'm stupid enough to believe we'll be the only ones without them.

Until they are available through the normal military-industrial complex channels we aren't going to have them.

ON the other hand we don't have any need of or use for a military anyway. So it doesn't rally matter.
 

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He wasn't admitting to being the stupidest one in the room. Only somebody really stupid would think that he was saying that.
 

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From wikipedia

"An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard."
 

Curious Cdn

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drone verb
droned; droning
Definition of drone (Entry 2 of 3)
intransitive verb

1a : to make a sustained deep murmuring, humming, or buzzing sound
droning bees
The air conditioner droned.
b : to talk in a persistently dull or monotonous tone
droning on and on about his health

2 : to pass, proceed, or act in a dull, drowsy, or indifferent manner
The afternoon droned on.


Merriam-Webster
 

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Hoid

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Surface to air and air to defenses are all missile-based.

These missiles are actually drones which can be pre-programmed to fly in any way desired and can also be directed in real time in flight and can also be entirely autonomous with their own search acquisition and terminal phases.

Aircraft will eventually all become drones/missiles.
 

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The USAF hasn't fought a dog fight since Vietnam.
When was the last fighter jet dogfight?
During the Balkans conflict, in 1999 (the Kosovo War), five MiG-29s of the Yugoslav Air Force were shot down in dogfights with NATO aircraft. The first was on March 24, by a Dutch F-16AM Falcon, and two were downed on the same night by U.S. F-15s.
 

Curious Cdn

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When was the last fighter jet dogfight?
During the Balkans conflict, in 1999 (the Kosovo War), five MiG-29s of the Yugoslav Air Force were shot down in dogfights with NATO aircraft. The first was on March 24, by a Dutch F-16AM Falcon, and two were downed on the same night by U.S. F-15s.
Fake news.

There are no more dog fights.
 

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I wonder if the Royal Navy is still planning on building its drone carriers.

 

petros

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Surface to air and air to defenses are all missile-based.
These missiles are actually drones which can be pre-programmed to fly in any way desired and can also be directed in real time in flight and can also be entirely autonomous with their own search acquisition and terminal phases.
Aircraft will eventually all become drones/missiles.
Are they? Drones don't fly. UAVs do.

Are there any space weapons platforms? Would they be vaccum to air weapons?
 

petros

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F15 deploying aim7 air to air missile
DO you honestly think they chase other airplanes around the sky and shoot em up?
What is the point of the guns and cannons? For when missiles run out or show?

What happens when no fighters escort bombers?