And what about "the longbow will never defeat armor" no, wait . . .

Sorry dude.

Smokeless powder and cased cartrdges did indeed replace black powder and
minie balls.

Technology has a way of surprising us, after all.

What similar disadvantage(s) do UCAVS poseess (like each of your examples
clearly did at their introduction) to limit their application? Moral
disadvantages? Legal disadvantages?

The technical limitations are falling away very quickly.

Steve Swartz


"JDupre5762" wrote in message
...
Does anyone remember......... The missile will make the internal gun and
the
dog fight obsolete? Fighters will kill thier targets at BVR and never see
them? Modern submarines with missiles make surface ships obsolete?
Modern man
portable anti tank missiles make the tank obsolete?

Clearly UAVs have an important and increasing role especially in military
roles
but there will always be a need to have a pilot on station somewhere who
can
actually see what is going on with his own eyes.

John Dupre'

"These things are here to stay and
they are proliferating. We'll see them on every runway of every
airport doing patrols and day-to-day routine tasks." Some are even
predicting that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will be the last manned
fighter.