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The A-10PCAS program had been cancelled before it was truly begun.
DARPA—the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—had technically abandoned using an unmanned A-10 Thunderbolt II in 2012 as part of its Persistent Close Air Support program.
The PCAS program had successfully moved on to other aspects of the electronic battlefield.
But the unmanned A-10PCAS Thunderbolt II Warthog wasn’t forgotten by the Air Force.
The flight of four F-35 Lightning IIs were currently in a fight for their lives in a dogfight high over the vast emptiness of the Syrian desert with two outmoded MiG-29 Fulcrum jets—and a pair of Su-57 Felons they’d never seen coming.
Independently, the remote-piloted A-10PCAS—driven by a pilot thinking he was in a simulation—dove straight for the ground with an America
