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| iMo:
Frankly, I do not understand why the pilots are still sitting there in the F35.. :) You can fly it from your home-office.. |
| jfiresto:
What amazes me about the F-35 is that nearly 12 years after the first delivery, the U.S. DoD and friends have still not validated the design (with the Joint Simulation Environment). |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: imo on January 29, 2023, 04:20:50 pm ---Frankly, I do not understand why the pilots are still sitting there in the F35.. :) You can fly it from your home-office.. --- End quote --- Its easy to do that when nobody is trying to stop you. It turns out to be very hard to keep communication with an air vehicle rock solid when people are trying to stop you. Drones have been working great in situations where the enemy is not very sophisticated. When they are, perhaps its a less effective approach. The approach being sought for next generation pilotless fighters is to make them sufficiently smart that they can act on their own for much of the time, doing more sophisticated things than just avoiding a crash when there is no real time input from the comms links. |
| KE5FX:
--- Quote from: coppice on January 29, 2023, 04:54:33 pm --- The approach being sought for next generation pilotless fighters is to make them sufficiently smart that they can act on their own for much of the time, doing more sophisticated things than just avoiding a crash when there is no real time input from the comms links. --- End quote --- |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: coppice on January 29, 2023, 04:54:33 pm --- --- Quote from: imo on January 29, 2023, 04:20:50 pm ---Frankly, I do not understand why the pilots are still sitting there in the F35.. :) You can fly it from your home-office.. --- End quote --- Its easy to do that when nobody is trying to stop you. It turns out to be very hard to keep communication with an air vehicle rock solid when people are trying to stop you. Drones have been working great in situations where the enemy is not very sophisticated. When they are, perhaps its a less effective approach. The approach being sought for next generation pilotless fighters is to make them sufficiently smart that they can act on their own for much of the time, doing more sophisticated things than just avoiding a crash when there is no real time input from the comms links. --- End quote --- Even F18s have direct laser communication with satellites. The only way to block that is with an object in between. Or a cloud, but that's not the point. Why wouldn't have the F35 a pilot in it? I think pilotless aircraft has a place, and they have been sending these aircrafts in when it was cheaper, or there is no air superiority but loosing them is no big deal. In which way would a pilotless aircraft be better? It can pull more Gs. Otherwise that's it, having the pilot is not a drawback. And pulling Gs is not what you do with this aircraft. You fly in, launch some rockets to targets at 30km range. Nobody is shooting at your plane, they don't even know you are there unless you turn on the transponder. There is no dogfight, since it's not the 70s anymore. Not even with a SU-57, since the radar signature of it is so bad, they don't allow them to fly against MIG-29s, or to fly into contested airspace. in fear that a simple manpads will shoot it down. It has similar radar signature than a F-18 except from the front. And then it comes the: "comrade we don't have rokets for the internal bay we fly external yes?" part. |
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