From: Adam 

Robert Comer wrote:

> Yep, but it's got to know what and when and how to attack. (and better yet,
> what not to attack) An unmanned aircraft would have an advantage in
> everything but smarts and autonomy.  Like I said, it'll get there, but not
> soon.
>

If in contact then have a man in the loop. Simply flying a profile to take
you into an area then autonomous. If a threat is detected then sound an
alarm & the man hops back into the loop. Having said that though wrt
aaw a lot of that can /is already devolved into maths etc.

& then add bvr to that & stealth & the idea is to pop off missiles w/o
ever being seen & that would include getting anywhere near visual range.


>> No stealth & basically it has supercruise cos there is only so much a
>> man can take. An airframe + electronics can take g forces etc which will
>> render the pilot into soup.
>
> Not even close, the most sophisticated part aren't those, it's the
> weapons/detectors system. (I believe it's somewhat super maneuverable too
> with some thrust vectoring)
>

A) So a drone can't have thrust vectoring? B) A Drone can take the sort of
"super maneuverability" which frankly will kill a pilot. Look at
the sot of G's currently pulled by the various aam'es which themselves use
thrust vectoring e.g. asraam

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/missile/aim-132.htm


Adam

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