Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
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Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
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Re: Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
#2These aircraft were built with human limitations in mind, take away the human dependency and you can engineer aircraft capable of much higher Gs for longer.
Re: Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
#3I think what is important to note is that fighter jets already make use of highly sophisticated and automated weapons. E.g. Air-to-air missiles, which can accurately track and hit a target over extremely long distances.
It seems quite unsurprising that humans don't excel at flying modern fighter jets.
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#4Faster ODA loop, much shallower incorporation of energy tactics and greater strategy. F-16 is not an energy fighter though, it's a dog fighter (at least in original design). Not surprising to see much faster ODA loop win out.
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#5These aircraft were built with human limitations in mind, take away the human dependency and you can engineer aircraft capable of much higher Gs for longer.
Plus it's probably better to have many smaller and cheaper planes than one big expensive one.
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#6These aircraft were built with human limitations in mind, take away the human dependency and you can engineer aircraft capable of much higher Gs for longer.
That's going to be the ticket for the AI Wingmen. One of the F22's biggest teething problems when it entered service was pilots passing out because the thrust vectoring made it way too easy to pull high Gs in maneuvers. They had to put in software limits and train pilots to be careful not to push it the jets too far.
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#7Seeing term "loyal wingman" - meaning an unmanned combat air vehicle - makes me ask: Are the human pilots not considered loyal enough? Maybe so. The humans might hesitate on an order to shoot whereas the AI will not. I prefer the human that at least hesitates to shoot at a target that will cause substantial "collateral damage".
Re: Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
#8Would be interesting to know if the AI came up with new maneuvers.
Re: Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are 'Roughly Even' with Human Pilots
#9Faster ODA loop, much shallower incorporation of energy tactics and greater strategy. F-16 is not an energy fighter though, it's a dog fighter (at least in original design). Not surprising to see much faster ODA loop win out.
Do you mean OODA loop? Observe Orient Decide Act?
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#10These aircraft were built with human limitations in mind, take away the human dependency and you can engineer aircraft capable of much higher Gs for longer.
I often wonder if drones even need to look like they do or if there is a more efficient design that we don't use simply because "things that fly look like this" where "this" includes a place for a cockpit.