It was bold but wrong for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to proclaim the end of manned fighter aircraft in front of U.S. Air Force officers. Here's why manned fighters will hold the competitive edge over drones and remote-piloted aircraft for decades into the future.
in his target sight. “The competitor should be a drone fighter plane that’s remote-controlled by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy. The F-35 would have no chance against it,” he tweeted.
To provide some point of reference relative to the current state of artificial intelligence in a far simpler scenario let’s look at Musk’s self-driving cars being tested today in a two-dimensional environment—not three dimensions as in air or space—with known rules of the road, simple mechanics, and well understood human behavior patterns. In April 2019, Musk declared that Teslas would achieve “full self-driving” capability by the end of the year. It did not happen.feature crashed.
Before we get to the unmanned future described by visionaries, a pressing need exists to recapitalize our geriatric Air Force, which consists of bombers, tankers, and trainers with anage approaching 30 years—for comparison purposes the average age of the U.S. airline fleet is about 10 years, and they don’t pull 6 to 9 “Gs,” or the force of gravity, on a daily basis as do our fighters. Age, to a degree, reflects capability, and in that regard the. As DIA director Lt. Gen.
Congress asked the Air Force what was necessary to meet the demands of the national defense strategy. After much study it reported back to Congress in 2018 that across all the mission areas that it has assigned, the Air Force requires
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