McCain: U.S. Navy should be looking at drones to replace manned aircraft

Former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, U.S. Sen. John McCain told National Journal that the U.S. “Navy should be looking at drones to replace manned aircraft.”

By Alan Radecki [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“The F-35 should be, and almost certainly will be, the last manned strike-fighter aircraft the Department of the Navy will ever buy or fly.”

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