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I thought control latencies still weren't low enough for drones to compete with human piloted aircraft?

Unless the solution is AI.

There'd also be a question of cost: if a drone could survive close enough to get into missile range, it'd be a question of whether you could buy enough drones to overwhelm the F-35 for less than $100M even if individually a drone is no match. The design left it with relatively limited weapons capacity so it's not going to end well even if it effortlessly kills the first 10 drones but the enemy can afford to send 50 and there aren't human pilots to be concerned about.

I think the solution may be SpaceX's StarLink

You can't rely on satellites in a war against a nuclear power. Satellites will be the first thing to go.

If the supposed situation is direct conflict with China or Russia, they both have anti-satellite capabilities.

Are they going to shoot down thousands of Starlink satellites? That's a massive disaster in space that would destroy their own satellites.

>Are they going to shoot down thousands of Starlink satellites?

I wouldn't rule it out.

>That's a massive disaster in space that would destroy their own satellites.

As long as it hurts the US more than it hurts them.

Not of this scale, at least at the moment. Starlink will have over 4,400 satellites, in its initially approved form.

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