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AI has a already won in these confrontations

Surface To Air missile made human piloted aircraft obsolete.

All that’s needed now are a bunch of missiles, plug into an AI program and let it run by itself.

Why would militaries invest in a billion dollar aircraft piloted by a highly trained aircraft pilot with years of training that cost millions of dollars that is probably paid millions over many years … when the pilot and his aircraft can be shot down by a $100,000 missile. If you can’t do it with one missile, send three, four or ten, it’s still cheaper than matching them with an aircraft and pilot.

Instead of investing in expensive aircraft and pilots, all a defending country can do is just spend the same amount of money and surround their country with anti aircraft missiles controlled by AI systems.

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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are you not aware of stealth aircraft?

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- chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How do you deploy manned fighters against an aircraft you can’t detect?
  
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  - Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    How do you deploy manned fighters against an aircraft you can’t detect?
    
    Detect and target aren’t the same thing. There’s various Air Defense platforms that can detect stealth air craft at 20-30ish kilometers but they lack the resolution necessary to target them.
    
    I can buy thousands of rockets for the cost of a single F22 or F16.
    
    Annnd were back to the Air Defense platforms being hideously expensive. Literally no one can afford enough of them to cover more than a tiny fraction of their air space.
    
    Forget “thousands” of missiles any country larger than a Lichtenstein would to need to buy millions of them along with enough Ground Detection and Launch Stations to cover their entire border. Utterly and totally unaffordable.
    
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    Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Hurrah Liechtenstein, safest country on planet!
    
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    chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You understand you need all that equipment to get a manned fighter close enough to engage. At that point firing a barrage of smart missiles is still cheaper.
    
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Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why would militaries invest in a billion dollar aircraft piloted by a highly trained aircraft pilot with years of training that cost millions of dollars that is probably paid millions over many years … when the pilot and his aircraft can be shot down by a $100,000 missile.

Force projection.

It ain’t that easy to shoot down stealth aircraft.

Missiles that can successfully shoot down stealth aircraft cost several million dollars each.

Ground launch systems that can target and engage stealth aircraft, like the US Patriot System, are so horrifically expensive that no nation can afford enough of them to cover more than a fraction of its airspace. That means you need aircraft capable of engaging incoming enemy targets.
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- flying_monkies@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  It ain’t that easy to shoot down stealth aircraft.
  
  Hell, it's not easy to shoot down non-stealth aircraft
  
  The pilot evaded all six missiles while not being able to deploy any chaff/flare countermeasures.
  
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GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s also the extreme bottleneck of using a meat bag that dies if it maneuvers too fast or for too long. The limitations of aircraft are not their own strength or materials.

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