hcobb wrote:
On Mar 7, 2:58 am, Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Mar 7, 4:56 am, Andrew Swallow wrote:
The next successful fighter may be a stand-off launcher of missiles
that can be guided to their incoming target by the weapons officer.
Andrew Swallow
Tell me now what pilot would allow himself to be portrayed as the cab
driver delivering the gunman to to the target?

Sixth generation jet fighter pilots are going to be the leaders of
swarms of robotic aircraft.

Since they are already officers, this won't be much of a change for
them.

And fortunately they will grow up playing real-time strategy video
games.

-HJC

The length of satellite links can cause variable delays of the order
of 1 second. If 1 second reaction times are too slow during a dog
fight then the drone flying weapons officer needs to be within
about 100 miles of the fight. That puts him in the air.

Andrew Swallow