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3. It's cool (and promotable!) to be a fighter pilot, and not cool to fly drones remotely or to program automated drones.
by influx 8y ago
3. It's cool (and promotable!) to be a fighter pilot, and not cool to fly drones remotely or to program automated drones.
- golergka 8y agoWouldn't that incentivize the high command to abolish figher pilots? It's much easier to manage uncool, replacable and easily trainable drones than expensive rockstars.
- thrill 8y agoSeeing as the US military has been crying out (for 20 years now) of their shortage of fighter pilots, then this could generally be considered as happening. It's a situation that could have been far more easily handled in the late 90's, but is now being "handled" by attempting to reduce the training latency (not viable and quite unwise, IMO, but happening regardless) and by reducing the staff billets demanding fighter pilot backgrounds. Technology will indeed replace (and has been) much of the need to put a highly trained human on the bleeding edge. That doesn't obviate the current significant under-staffing.