Ed Majden wrote in message ..

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I am ex-air force and the days of a manned fighter
to the disgust of hot shot pilots is drawing to an end. The un-manned
fighter will before long take over these tasks according to some. The
Raptor will probably be the last U.S. manned fighter. Man can't handle the
stresses placed on him in modern airframes so un-manned versions will
probably dominate in the future.


I shouldn't have to say more...Manned combat aircraft will continue
for two reasons, one political, and the other biological if you will.
Politically they need a realtime human in the loop, and moreover, war
being the great sport of nations, the raison d'etre of the fighter is
largely to give the knight a mount for the jousting. Missiles don't
really require a high-G platform and if laser weapons replace guns,
they'll be turreted.


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Putting MM on the dime would serve a lot of purposes. It would
displace the devious FDR, send a signal to the Islamist world, make
the currency more attractive, and be a thorn in the ass to the Kennedy
Family, to name four good ones