“The US needs a large number of long-range UAVs (in the air, on the water and under the ocean) and hypersonic missiles. Anything manned will die very quickly in a UAV fight,” according to Fox News quoted billionaire Elon Musk’s post on platform X on December 26.
Billionaire Elon Musk
Previously, Mr. Musk also said: “Future wars will all involve UAVs and hypersonic missiles. Fighter aircraft piloted by humans will be destroyed very quickly.”
Mr. Musk said some US weapon systems are very good, but the price is too high. “We stopped the military program with the worst value in history, the F-35 program,” according to Mr. Musk.
“The F-35 design was broken at the standards level, because it was required to perform too many steps for too many people. This made it a complex and expensive tool. It has can do everything, but master none. Success is never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter aircraft are obsolete in the age of UAVs anyway will only kill the pilot,” Mr. Musk stated in a post in November.
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Commenting on the world’s richest billionaire, US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that Mr. Elon Musk needs to learn more about air combat technology before publicly criticizing that manned fighter jets have failed. outdated.
“I respect Mr. Elon Musk very much as an engineer. However, he is not a military man, and I think he needs to learn a little more about this field before making statements.” so big,” Mr. Kendall said.
US President-elect Donald Trump announced that billionaire Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Government Performance Committee. Billionaire Musk has continuously warned about the nation’s wasteful spending. Currently, the US national debt has exceeded 36.1 trillion USD. “Either we fix this or go bankrupt,” according to Mr. Musk.
