Elon Musk asked to replace all fighter aircraft in the US with drones

Donald Trump’s, close friend and member of his new government, requested that all fighter aircraft in the U.S. be replaced by . Zambrich Elon Musk, appointed by Donald Trump to be placed in charge of a commission on state spending cuts in the US, appeared opposed to the use of modern fighter aircraft stating that drones are the ones representing the future of conflicts in the skies. “The fighter aircraft with pilots are outdated at the time of drones. With the sole result of the pilots’ death,” said SpaceX and Tesla’s president in suspension on his also X platform. Elon Musk opposed in particular the use of F-35 of the American company Lockheed Martin which has been considered the flagship of US air forces since it began to be used in 2015. “In the meantime, you have fools still building fighter aircraft with pilots such as the F-35”, he said Sunday by publishing a video featuring hundreds of drones in formation a few dozen meters high. The F-35, the so-called fifth-generation invisible aircraft, was recently the product for which sales contracts were signed to Romania, Poland, Germany. Its critics often invoke its highly complex construction, mainly due to the design of IT programs, and its very high operating costs. “The design of the F-35 failed as to the prerequisites, as it was asked to be many things for many people”, said Elon Musk today, for which the F-35 became a “complex and costly” machine and without any speciality in battle. However, for Mauro Jilly, a researcher at the Zurich Federal Polytechnic School (ETH) “what makes F-35 expensive, are his software and electronic components, not the pilot.” “This is important as a re-used drone would need all the impressive electronic components of the F-35”, wrote the researcher on the X platform. It also underlines that the existence of a program with such advanced technologies as the F-35 forces United States opponents to start programs to respond to this, mainly advanced radar. “With their existence alone, F-35 and B-1 force Russia and China to make strategic choices that otherwise should not make (i.e. have budgetary resources)”, according to Jilly. “Even if Musk was right (and he is wrong), the abolition of these programs could ease restrictions” on these opponents of the United States, he added.