Dillinger
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No No!FCS and engine. UCAVs are example. For manned would require complex FCS
UCAVS are not tier one fighters/interceptors nor are we dealing with a platform tailored along the ubiquitous flying wing design (which is what the majority of sophisticated UCAVs comply too, AURA/TARANIS/RQ-170/NEURON/X-47B, the said design intentionally calls for the absence of a "fin"). You are making the same mistake in your notions as the ADA did in its days of designing the Tejas, the demands made on a manned fighter which is to see combat while generating a high sortie rate in a non-permissive environment are very different from those made upon science projects and demonstrators. Flight profile characteristics of a needlessly complicated design do not lend themselves to margins of error. Part of the reason why the early tailless and absent vertical stabilizer (fin) design of the MCA was dropped quite quickly.
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