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Hmm.
That's an interesting thought. I'd been thinking about purely-technological solutions, UAVs with guns and fancy computer systems.
But if you have enough remotely-operated drones and operators, you can probably get aerial superiority, at least in terms of low altitude, low speed aircraft.
The other side can counter with their own suicide drones.
But then it's a numbers game.
I guess the constraints are really:
Manufacture rate.
Number of operators.
Number of unjammed video streams in an area.
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From a US standpoint, if that's where low-end drone combat winds up, human-driven suicide drones fighting other human-driven suicide drones, that's quite likely not good for the US. China probably dominates in manufacture rate and can more-readily put up more operators. The US only has an edge in maybe electronic warfare, if the last factor is the bottleneck.
It would probably be preferable to have a counter-UAS system that is bounded by some other factor.