Why couldn't a RPA do the same, green knight? While it's a fascinating article I can't help feeling the author hasn't mentioned a key advantage, which is economic. While obsessing with 1v1 combat he misses what shoud be the obvious point that for the price of a manned fighter one could buy twenty RPA's!
Even in real present day scenarios, where very basic Hezbollah drones have been "successfully" engaged by the IDF it was with a Python AAM which cost many times what the drone did.