The comments on this were pretty interesting.
I just think this stuff is cool.
I guess one of the questions I would ask is if you are building an AI based drone fighter would you build it on the chassis of an existing fighter or would it look more like a sleek “Cylon” craft that did not have a cockpit area (or any of the stuff that goes along with it?). Would be like a flying wing?
A whole lotta plane volume is pilot occupancy & life support. Remove that, and everything supporting it, result is a much smaller vehicle that can operate at much higher Gs and leverage other human-incompatible optimizations.
One thing I would wonder is what benefit does the AI have since it has a reduced time in the interface over the pilot. The pilot has to use controls, which in turn generates the inputs into the simulation. The AI would essentially be a direct pipeline.
Aerodynamics and steering could be a lot more radical seeing that a human’s comfort and health were no longer considerations...............
Ask yourself, why was the F22 so suddenly canceled?
And that answers your question.
I fly and trained human pilots all my adult life. I wouldn’t want to go head to head with an AI.
Hmmm... Not the way Katee (Kara) & I remember them...