I quite agree.... drones of all types are cheaper and easier to...

I quite agree.... drones of all types are cheaper and easier to build, more suitable for high risk deployments than manned craft, and, due to lower cost, able to be manufactured in larger numbers. Yes we could take advantage, as other nations do, of the impressive tech that mining are using.

Instead our Liberal masters are stuck in an archaic mental space which insists on remaining with old school thinking.

dumb