For the first time the US Air Force is training more drone pilots than actual pilots. As The Times reported yesterday, the US will retire 123 manned fighters next year but add more than twice as many drones to its fleet. The plan is to introduce thousands more over the next four decades until pilotless planes do everything piloted ones do now.

The Times’s Giles Whittell chronicles the demise of Top Gun

Notes

  1. tcanews reblogged this from timesopinion
  2. huffpostpol reblogged this from timesopinion
  3. repules reblogged this from ka-steve
  4. ka-steve reblogged this from timesopinion
  5. timesopinion posted this

Loading posts...