Elon Musk says US needs many hypersonic missiles, long-range drones: ‘Anything manned will die very fast’

Business giant Elon Musk He stressed that the United States needs a large stock of hypertonic missiles and long-range air and sea drones.

“America needs a significant amount of long-range drones (air, surface water, and submarine) and hypersonic missiles. Anything manned will die very quickly in a drone war,” Musk declared Thursday in a post on X.

The comments complemented comments he made in a tweet last month: “Future wars are about drones and hypersonic missiles. Human-piloted fighter planes will be destroyed very quickly.”

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Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump addresses the House Republican Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024, in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)

Musk specifically targeted the F-35 fighter jet, calling it a “small design.”

“The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it needed to be too many things for too many people. This made it an expensive and complex jack of all trades, and it was not a leader at anything. Success was never in the group,” he declared. “Potential outcomes,” he wrote in a November post, “and manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway.”

In another post last month, he said: “Some of America's weapons systems are good, if expensive, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history, the F-35 program.” !

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An Israeli Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter jet flies over an air show in Tel Aviv on April 26, 2023, as Israel celebrates Independence Day, 75 years since the founding of the Jewish state. (Jacques Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

President-elect Donald Trump Musk, along with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an informal effort to expose government waste and advocate for spending cuts.

Musk has sounded the alarm about wasteful spending in the country.

“horrifying [to be honest]”, he wrote last month in regards to America's mega-hit National debt.

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US President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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The national debt exceeds $36.1 trillion, according to financialdata.treasury.gov.

“We either get this right or we go de facto bankrupt,” Musk warned in a post on Thursday.