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US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

Death_Ninja

How?

How is this going to work though?

An actual close in dogfight? Are those even a thing any more? I appreciate the reason for Top Gun school was to relearn dogfighting when the USAF discovered guided missiles weren't very capable in Vietnam, but a log old amount of time has gone by since then.

If the two aircraft are going to lob beyond visual range missiles at each other its not so much a test of the pilot/AI but one of the missile manufacturer surely?

If both platforms are equipped with the same countermeasures (both being US platforms) that we can assume are effective against the stuff they know about (ie their own) then this too skews the result.

Maybe then the drone is really good at proper dogfighting gun combat?

Which leaves them with what result? The thing is useful assuming the Russian/Chinese radar, missiles and counter measures aren't better/unknown vs US made ones. Might have been true at one point, but suspect that's a big old bit of hubris today.

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