America's Air Force is now too small and too old to generate enough combat mass to simultaneously defeat great power aggression and meet other National Defense Strategy requirements. It needs affordable solutions to overcome the damage done by decades of insufficient modernization funding. Low-cost attritable and reusable UAVs present a new class of force multipliers that could help the Air Force balance its requirements and modestly grow its force capacity. Enabled by artificial intelligence and operating without risk to life and limb could change how the Air Force operates.
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