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Originally Posted by Ursus Maior
And that's exactly my point. Drones as we know them today were available as "handfulls", their electronics were not as hardened as that of jets and their use in combat after the nukes would have gone off are highly questionable, as is the ability of the US, Israel and comparable nations to further produce them, especially for the use of SAR. And that was the starting point of the discussion.
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I would say if anything the US and other countries would use their scarce resources even more to keep them going after the TDM - for one not all electronics are fried and there would be a lot you can salvage that would still be useable - and the drones and UAV's are a hell of a lot more attractive in a low fuel situation than manned jets are. Plus they can operate from places that most planes (sans the A-10 or Harrier) cant use