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Unfortunately the USAF likes to put all their drone pilots at Beale which from what I have heard isn't a very big difference in experience from Minot.
Also right now all drones are required to be full pilots and officers. This is a big factor in the shortages problem. No one wants to through the Academy and then sit at a desk flinging a joystick around. When I was in it was asked all the time why not have warrant officers or let enlisted fly drones? Brass always said no.
I wonder if there will ever be a sub 30k car by Tesla someday. The average new car is around 37k now, so about half the market is under that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_con...
Either way I know the major benefits of the F-35 and US fighters in general are data sharing and pilot skill. The F-35s greatest strengths lean into this.
> There is nothing "toxic" about the internet
There are quite a lot of terrible and toxic things on the internet.
> Federation and peer to peer seem to be the only way forwards.
Yes, one would hope the entire internet ends up like Tor. A place where you can buy drugs, hire hitman, and find child porn.
This guy would have made a lot of money selling sandwiches to tech workers.
Which other countries have made the security commitments that the US has? Not only being a part of NATO, but commitments to Israel, Egypt, Japan, Korea, Australia, NZ, and so on. At a minimum the US needs an active carrier in both the Atlantic and Pacific, and usually two in the Pacific. To do that you need at another minimum twice that number to rotate ships out. Then for carriers you need more for life cycle and overhauls.
Plus its always quite disingenuous to compare the US to say a country like France. The size, population, economy, etc are in completely different categories.