How far in the future can we expect to see fighter UAV's beating piloted fighters at Red Flag or some such competition?
I would think that they will be stand off missile fighters at best for a long time.
For close in or dogfighting, the bandwith required to give real time, clear and accurate video feeds from 6-8 angles would be too high.
Too save money, countries could sit thier best pilots down in front of an XBox with a copy of ace combat. Loser gets handed a pistol with one bullet in it and use of a small room out back, winner gets tea, bickies and a few medals. Next stage will be wars won by 13yr spotty oiks.
Wasn't there a Star trek episode which covered the ultimate version of this concept?