Drones and UAVs in T2K

[Ursus Maior]

By the mid-90s, there were the handful of [...]

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.