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I'm thinking it's because no drone can fly that high or fast. Which gives it an advantage in a world filled with drones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
Higher and faster. Not a successful program, though.
These days we have the X-37, which goes even higher and faster. I'm sure we could drop a computer flight system into any aircraft and make it a drone with sufficient work, too.
I love how strange it looks
Why would a drone be incapable of flying higher and faster than a human driven aircraft?
It's theoretically possible for them to do that. But not at the budgets currently available. This isn't just any human-driven aircraft.