This seems like a fairly big upgrade to the MQ-28 Ghost Bat.
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The "plan" for this and small satellite spam in general is the same as for drones but on a larger scale: ground-based directed energy systems that can burn electronics in low orbit at essentially zero marginal cost. Specifically through high power microwaves. This has been under development for a while though will take a bit longer to mature.
A B-52 has crashed during takeoff at Edwards AFB. Been a bad few days in aviation recently.
People were saying the Russian military was showing its problems back in the mid 2010s after a string of helicopter crashes.
Soviet and Russian helicopters were, and still are, the best in the world. Catastrophic crashes were rare, with the most serious losses originating from enemy fire.
The USA has the best combat aircraft in the world, and its Air Force has always been the backbone of its military strength.
And now we're seeing a string of crashes...
Severe understaffing of professional personnel + old birds that have served for over three-quarters of a century
Must have been carrying a big load out of munitions as the wreckage left nothing of the frame except charred ash,
I'm more concerned about whether any of those eight people were key members of the radar development team; the loss in that regard is immeasurable in monetary terms.
A country with healthy MIC shouldn't be too affected by losing 4 radar experts. PLA once had a KJ-200 prototype going down taking out all 40 people onboard (5 crew + 35 technicians running radar test) and the program managed to recover from the loss.
My dad kept telling me about it because one of those 35 was his class mate at university, they did computer science together.