It seems very unlikely that they gave the AI global awareness. What would a test like that prove? The people who are working on military software are not idiots

It seems very unlikely that they gave the AI global awareness. What would a test like that prove? The people who are working on military software are not idiots. The article also refers to ALPHA being able to defeat the human pilot with impeded sensors, which implies that it was being fed information from simulated sensor systems.