Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months agoHuh? Jets are far more replaceable than a human operator who takes years of training and has “needs”.
Ya know unless your military is running on cold war fumes or something and you can’t afford to.nuild an airframe you already have in production
diffusive@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Training a combat pilot used to cost (in early 2000, not sure now) 10M€ for a NATO member.
Find me a modern jet that costs so little. Regardless of what politicians say, human life has a price… and it is waaaay below a jet (even including the training)
grue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, but procurement of a combat pilot has about a two-decade lead time. You can build more jets a lot quicker (potentially even including the R&D phase).
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Also as this war expands to become planet-wide, industrial output of drones will expand many orders of magnitude.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s not just money. It’s time, public perception, quantity trainers, quantity student seats etc