From: Adam 

Robert Comer wrote:
>> Computer would have brought it down faster since its Mode IV was inop.
>> Why do you think it was brought down?  For jollies?  The man made a
>> mistake by not thinking the whole problem out.  Something a computer is
>> much more likely not to do also.
>
> This is exactly my problem with the drone fighters that I've been trying to
> get Adam to understand.  Pilots have made bad mistakes at times I agree, but
> with the state of our tech, computers are going to make more.
>


Different mistakes with some commonality.

e.g. If right now the "computers" tell the pilot that the
oncoming a/c are enemy sukhois he will shoot as would a computer (assuming
his mission was to go somewhere & clear the skies of enemy).

Now given the efficiency of modern Russian aam's you'd probably not want to
get close enough for visual confirmation.

Were you in more of a patrol oriented mission e.g. pottering in the
vicinity of NYC then you'd put a man in the loop anyway & even then
you'd actually as now have many men in the loop e.g. check back to see it
was OK to down a 777 full of passengers as that's not a pilot's decision
alone.



Adam

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