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This was one of the big advantages the AI had. I could tell that the human pilot had to reorient himself after encounters, while the AI never needed to waste t

• ghaff 6y ago
  In the same vein, as a former fighter pilot was commenting, the advantage goes to the pilot who can keep the plane right at the very edge of its performance envelope--which an AI can do more precisely than a human pilot can.
  • dogma1138 6y ago
    Classical dog fighting is all about energy management, something which an AI can outperform humans in considerably since it doesn’t uses intuition and experience but real time data.
    • anilakar 6y ago
      With two identical airplanes, that's true. IIRC the AI also excelled in high-aspect head on shots which normal pilots tend to avoid, because for humans it's mostly about luck and less skill. When you pit two dissimilar aircraft against each other, it's up to the pilot to try to keep the fight outside of regimes where the enemy plane performs better. A common comparison is between a one-circle and two circle fight, where the aircraft turn in opposite and same direction, respectively (and unintuitively!). Pure energy fighters like to keep going in a circle at the peak speed of its turn curve, when high-AoA capable planes want to cut into the enemy's flight path to get an early shot. Another surprising example is a well-known HUD tape where a slow but fast-turning A-10 beats an F-16 in a training dogfight when the real-world solution would have been to not engage in a turning fight but hit the slower plane with a missile.