New American Fighter Flies

[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Raellus

As someone who was a huge Top Gun fan as a kid, and daydreamed about dogfighting Soviet MiGs in my imaginary F-16 Fighting Falcon, this pains me to say, but I think our next air superiority fighter should be 100% unmanned. I favor a remotely-piloted option w/ AI assist over a purely autonomous fighter. Recently, an AI kicked a human pilot's butt in simulated air-to-air combat. It wasn't a fluke either.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-fighter-pilot

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ot-in-dogfight

An unmanned aircraft can sustain more G's than the human body can handle, making it more maneuverable. AI makes decisions quicker and implements them faster than a human can. As the tech matures, it will also more consistently make better decisions than a human would.

I fear the days of the piloted combat aircraft will very soon be behind us. If we're not at the leading edge of emerging aerospace tech, we'll get left in the dust by the Chinese.

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Whoa, there chief...

The AI was given certain advantages that NO FIGHTER (AI or otherwise) would ever have. Check out MOVER'S critic and listen to how the developers gave the AI the advantage of total situational awareness (it knew EVERYTHING about its opponent except the fuel state) and 360-degree vision. Here's MOVER'S video:

https://youtu.be/ziCQqmEllZo

Also, here's a clip of Tesla's "wiz-bang" synthetic aperature radar that can supposedly "see everything," thus making it SUPERIOR to a human driver (according to "Teslaphiles"). This is from June of this year and represents the MOST ADVANCED version of that radar and driving AI.

https://youtu.be/LfmAG4dk-rU

[Raellus]

If AI somehow gets stuck in 2020, yeah. But that's not going to happen. It'll take, what, at least 10 years from digital design to operational 6th gen airframe? In that time, AI will get even smarter and more capable. Human beings, meanwhile, are currently protesting being asked to wear cloth masks during the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Are human pilots going to get smarter and more capable in the next decade or so? I wouldn't count on it.

Advantage AI.

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[swaghauler]

Originally Posted by Raellus

If AI somehow gets stuck in 2020, yeah. But that's not going to happen. It'll take, what, at least 10 years from digital design to operational 6th gen airframe? In that time, AI will get even smarter and more capable. Human beings, meanwhile, are currently protesting being asked to wear cloth masks during the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Are human pilots going to get smarter and more capable in the next decade or so? I wouldn't count on it.

Advantage AI.

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The Air Force has admitted that a prototype is flying now. From the two grainy photos I've seen, it looks like a flattened YF-23 with a funky "taileron" type arrangement in place of tail rudders.