I imagine they care less for the cost of the plane (I mean if it was uncontrolled with no pilot it’s probably crashed and thoroughly wrecked, right?) and more about avoiding having foreign intelligence agents and such finding it and studying the technology.
US military loses a jet fighter: … ah … oh well … waddaya gonna do … we’ll just buy another one, or two or thirty.
I imagine they care less for the cost of the plane (I mean if it was uncontrolled with no pilot it’s probably crashed and thoroughly wrecked, right?) and more about avoiding having foreign intelligence agents and such finding it and studying the technology.