The USMC just issued a call for 10,000 FPV drones to be delivered in one year, a small step toward fielding this capability across the force.
The USMC just issued a call for 10,000 FPV drones to be delivered in one year, a small step toward fielding this capability across the force.
They’ve already cloned the Sahed under the LUCAS program. So low cost bomber drones are already in operation and being used in active combat by the US.
As for the organizational/operational philosophy, we’ll never know what is better until we see it in real neer-peer combat. I can find merit in both countries approaches, and suspect a blend of both would be even more beneficial.
This has only recently been cleared past testing. I am not sure if it will retain its low cost claims once real world production or wartime supply comes into play.