No canopy, cockpit, ejection seat, climate control or oxygen system. Armor weight could be reduced. Extreme maneuvers wouldn’t matter to the computer, except when it came to staying under maximum airframe loading.
I agree that capital punishment should be more widely applied, but only if there is not a shadow of doubt that the accused committed the crime.
However... if someone has committed a crime and knows that the death penalty will apply to him, he may well murder any potential witnesses to prevent testimony against him.
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence- it is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” —George Washington
I started working in a production machine shop in 1971. The shop had a dozen Warner & Swasey turret lathes, mostly WWII vintage. Despite having been run for thousands of hours the machines had held up very well.
In 1985 I set up one of those old lathes for a precision finish-boring job and managed to hold less than 0.002” total variation in diameter when boring a 19” long workpiece. Pretty good for a machine built in Cleveland in 1943.
We used to make some of the very best machine tools in the world.
In 1994 I set up an American 32” engine lathe for a different boring operation. This newly-purchased machine had been in government standby storage since the early 1950s and was in essentially new condition. After performing test-cutting and final leveling I bored a 30” long billet and had less than 0.001” diameter variation overall.
We used to make some of the very best machine tools in the world.