MQ-1s and 9s are easily destroyed by SAMs and MANPADS, both of which your average goat fucker terrorist org doesn't have access to.
This is probably the answer.
Why offer an expensive combat drone, that requires a huge support infrastructure to keep operational, let alone flying it vs. stupidly cheap COTS drones that can be rigged to accurately drop dumb munitions?
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