Firstly Im sorry to hear that some of you lost a good friend and colleague.
I have always enjoyed seeing the Red Arrows during my life and they were partially responsible for me getting into the aviation world and then blowing 1000's learning to fly, albeit rotary wing.
I recently attended a conference on the NASA ACAT system that is now being fielded on the US F-16 fleet and is designed to prevent incidents such as these, along with other CFIT occurences.
I realise that the ACAT equipped aircraft requires an autopilot and FBW control system but do the guys here with military aerobatic flying experience believe this system would have helped, or is there some operational reason/s that would make it impractical?