Let’s just put that unmanned C-130 fleet to work! My god this has been two weeks of high volume low information solution peddler hell.
https://twitter.com/joshrogin/status/1502296231317495812
No large unmanned aircraft options to supply cities under siege exists under these circumstances. No medium sized workable solutions exist. Nothing with a large capacity for sorties at all. Stand-off distance is an issue. I report on leading edge of unmanned systems for a living.
That being said, the US has both a manned overt and covert capability to do this. Covert is more limited in capacity and higher risk. Overt you are back into the NFZ non starter territory.
I am not familiar with this author, he could be brilliant and a great guy, but on this, it’s not reality and a lot of people clearly take it as otherwise. It’s no ill will towards him at all, but people of notoriety are just throwing crap out there, it’s exasperating.
Also, remember this is not about manned or unmanned at this time. No NATO aircraft of any kind are operating over Ukraine for a reason. Even if you had the assets to do this you would be risking them and them being unmanned, Russia would go after them full on….
A C-130, manned or not, careening on fire is a massive fuel air bomb/exploding projectile that can kill many on the ground. Huge targets for Russian air defenses even those in Russia. Anyways, you get the idea, I’ll stop here.
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