> A pilot on board the jet receives input from the environment with effectively 0 latency, and responds with 0 latency as well. The only latency would be human

> A pilot on board the jet receives input from the environment with effectively 0 latency, and responds with 0 latency as well. The only latency would be human reaction latency, which the remote pilot would have to. Except that remote pilot would also have to contend with network latency to a plane that's thousands of miles away. Also remotely operated planes can be disabled by disrupting the communications link. A piloted plane is still able to operate in a degraded mode in an environment where communications links are disrupted. If the USAF went all-in on remotely operated planes, that could incentivize adversaries to increase investment in technology to disrupt the links that control them, since such technology could deliver air-superiority against an all-remote air force in a single action.