Posted on 06/05/2020 10:34:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Titanium shell drone swarms targeting engine intakes. Only need 1 to be ingested.
I may try to find it don't think it is in my library.
You know human pilots outsmart drones known as guided missiles by jamming the signals and deploying countermeasures, right? It’s also a concept that you could have guided missiles that follow the drone control signal to the drone itself.
Some missiles are guided through terminal homing to the target by RF illumiation. Others have onboard seekers and do it themselves using RF or other means. Not sure what your point is. Mine is that if the 'pilot' is a guy on the ground controlling the aircraft as it makes high speed maneuvers then that RF better never be jammed or lost by atmospheric effects. He needs instantaneous communications to the aircraft. I mean he moves the stick and the aircraft responds instantaneously just like he was sitting in the cockpit. You have some delay with a line of sight RF link, you have a LOT of delay with a satcom link. So he'd have to be close which is unrealistic. Basically you either let the AI fly it or you keep a man in the cockpit, flying it from the ground defeats the purpose of making it unmanned in the first place and adds a level of complexity and unreliability.
The point is that the best you could expect is to have a controller on the ground fly it from waypoint to waypoint but if it needs to be high speed maneuvering like in a dogfight the AI takes over and does it locally so the aircraft can hit peak maneuvers that would cause a human pilot to turn to jelly (which is the point of not having a human in the cockpit in the first place). At that point the controller on the ground's role is only deciding whether to authorize the AI to take a shot or not. Which seems to me to be the best model. AI flies faster and "better" (i.e. pulls higher Gs, etc) and makes faster decisions than a human can but can only shoot if a human in the loop turns it loose to do so.
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