By Eliza Popova
According to journalists, it is about the unmanned XQ-58a Valkyrie. According to Major Ross Elder, who piloted the F-15 fighter together with the drone, there was an apparatus next to him in the air, making his own decisions. "It's a very strange feeling," he said. The publication writes that the US Air Force is planning to buy from 1000 to 2000 such drones. They are cheap when compared to the cost of manned fighters, so the creation program has already been called "accessible mass".
The material says that, as expected, a number of specialized UAVs will be. Some of them will be focused on observation or replenishment missions, others will fly in attackers, and others will be under the control of a pilot. Journalists noted that the US is now concerned that the current combination of aircraft and Air Force weapons, despite all the invested funds, will no longer be able to do the dominance in the event of a full -scale war with China in the Pacific.
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