The US Air Force is in denial about this. The controls of a modern craft are mediated by computer through fly by wire. The mechanism that detect aircraft is m

The US Air Force is in denial about this. The controls of a modern craft are mediated by computer through fly by wire. The mechanism that detect aircraft is mediated by computer. The targeting of guns and missiles all depend on computers, not humans. In the latest aircraft, the F-35, the obscuring of vision is compensated for cameras that present the pilot with a computationally created augmented reality view of the environment. The plane is programmed to keep flying if the pilot passes out from hi-Gs. Etc. Even if a human pilot were really somehow better (better judgement maybe, or harder to fool in theory), that advantage will not outweigh the fact that a pilot-less plane is cheaper, more maneuverable, able to react faster and be expendable. Submersibles are like planes in that making them manned adds incredibly to the cost, and human senses are not very useful. In those areas, humans are going to leave the loop by necessity.