Originally Posted by
John Eacott
I'm still unsure how
this has morphed into a categorical assumption that a drone will beat a live human in A2A combat? It was a simulation, not a real exercise, where a drone operator (on a computer) beat an F16 pilot (on a computer) with a result that can only be as real as the programming allows. Fully accept that the F16 pilot pointed out manoeuvres that he had never expected not trained for, but maybe they will/can be incorporated into future scenarios and be countered accordingly?
When a real drone in the air takes on a real pilot in a real fighter the results should then be considered realistic.
The point is that the drone operator WAS the computer and while this was a simulation the drone operator, in the future, can be in the drone which may not be limited by human physiology.
It's another step towards machine supremacy in cognitive analysis and mechanical skill.