Musk would like to change military aviation: Idiots are still building fighter planes with pilots
Billionaire Elon Musk, who was appointed by the newly elected US President Donald Trump to head the commission to reduce federal government spending, said that fighter jets should be replaced by drones, because they are the future of air conflicts.
“In the age of drones, fighter jets are obsolete and their only result is the death of the pilot,” said X (X) Mask, head of the space company SpaceX and the Tesla car industry, on his platform.
Speaking about the state-of-the-art fighter jets from Lockheed Martin, which has been considered the flagship of the US Air Force since entering service in 2015, Musk said that “there are idiots still building manned fighter jets like the F-35.” In addition, he published a video of hundreds of drones “in flight” in the air.
A fifth-generation stealth aircraft, the F-35 has recently been the subject of export contracts for Romania, Poland, and even Germany.
Elon Musk/Ilon Mask (Beta/AP)
Development of that aircraft was slow due to its complexity, especially the computer programs, and its operating costs were very high.
“The design of the F-35 failed in terms of the set prerequisites because it was asked to be too many things for too many people,” said Musk, for whom the F-35 has become “a complex machine without any combat distinctiveness.”
Researcher: Mask is wrong
Mauro Gili, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, said that what makes the F-35 expensive is the software and electronic components, not the pilot.
“That’s important because a reusable drone would need all the flashy electronics of the F-35,” the researcher said.
He emphasized that the existence of a program with advanced technologies such as the F-35 forces US rivals to launch programs to respond to it, especially advanced radars.
“Just by their existence, the F-35 and B-1 are forcing Russia and China to make strategic decisions that they wouldn’t otherwise have to make, (that is, allocate budget resources),” Gilley said.
“Even if Musk is right, which he is not, removing that program (F-35 and B-1) would ease the constraints” on US rivals, the expert added.
Source: Beta
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Source: bizlife.rs
