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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
You're welcome to try and convince me that some dude on a Pentagon Xbox can fly a plane better than an actual pilot. Won't lose a single pilot? No, we'll just lose a shitload more multi-million tax-dollar aircraft.
Thanks for your permission.
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The pilot means very little in his combat skills when the missile that shoots down his plane, was launched 20 to 50 miles away by an aircraft he will likely never see.
The Korean war was really the last time air to air combat was close range. Modern air war takes place at ranges the pilots will never see each other. Meaning a drone has significant advantage over a human because the drone can stay in the air much longer and the loss of it doesn't result in the loss of years and millions spent on flight training.
You shoot down a drone and the pilot can fly again the same day.. Hell that pilot can control more than one at a time.
I was always a big fan of ww2 and even Korean war dog fighting. It was man & machine vs man and machine and remarkable most of the planes were fairly closely matched or developed tactics to fight each other, which is amazing in it's self. However those glory days of the pilot really mattering are almost long, long gone.