Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Why is the US Navy almost skipping the F-35?" video.

  1. Because meatless aircraft have been landing on carrier decks for years and a pilot is a limfac bug not a feature. Meat in the seat is absurdly expensive, frequently lost to accidents, tires, limits mission endurance, is subject to emotions and required horrifically expensive and dangerous CSAR. Aircraft are nothing but missile and bomb range extenders so the sooner they're simplified AND (by improved missiles) the need for them is reduced the better. Consider that most of an aircraft carrier doesn't kill anything, it just supports ordnance delivery which can be done in many ways. Now imagine if the money and space and humans spent on aircraft went direct to self-delivering missiles fired from arsenal ships and submarines.
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