Originally Posted by
NutLoose
The question at the end of the day has to be what is the point? If you build an AI fighter and so presumably does your opposition to counter the threat, then the eventual outcome comes down to resources and attrition. It becomes a war won simply on production rates not on lost lives and a defeated population if that makes sense, which seems a pointless exercise to start with....
I can understand why an AI aircraft will eventually win out as an F16 with a pilot will always have to operate with in the limits of the pilots tolerance to G etc, a AI version is free from that constraint. It was one advantage Bader held over his German counterparts, without legs and the problems of blood pooling in his lower extremities, he was more G tolerant than his opposition.
Surely this is more akin to the introduction of the 'Dreadnought' by Lord Fisher. He successfully cleared the decks for the Kaiser to start a battleship race by obsoleting the existing Royal Navy battle line, so all started from scratch.
This AI drone similarly potentially eliminates the US advantage of thousands of trained aircrews, leaving the competition to depend on production capacity, where China has or will soon have a substantial advantage.