Oh, I certainly agree with that statement. What I'm trying to say (and doing a poor job of) is that the future of air combat probably consists of a guy sitting in a control station and flying a UAV remotely, rather than being in the cockpit. I don't think we'll see air combat conducted by artifical intelligencew in our lifetimes.
Would you agree with me that removing the frail human body from the equation (and the cockpit) would give us a major advantage over our potential enemies when it came to air combat?
No.
Computers do not have the eye-brain combination, and wont process information as fast as that for another 50 years. Fighter pilots are taught to determine what their opponent is doing based on very loosly associated sets of information, and to react in time to gain advantage, shoot, kill, in less time than it would take for a computer to transmit that same information to a ground station, have someone read it, confirm it, act upon it, gauge results, act again, and so on.
How is a computer to remain in formation with another computer controlled aircraft through a 5G break without crashing into it? Are you going to have omni-directional cameras and sensors all over the airframe? My eyes can tell me what I need to know, before you can say "Pukin", and my brain can react in time to save my ass.
Computers are precise, but they dont do well at dead-reckonning or forcing an aircraft to do something it is not supposed to do.