This is a slippery slope. For all the failings of humans, most air-to-air conflict has been within visual range. That's because we don't trust sensors/intel/dec

This is a slippery slope. For all the failings of humans, most air-to-air conflict has been within visual range. That's because we don't trust sensors/intel/decision-making/airspace beyond that range to not blow up the wrong thing. Airspace is filled with lots of non-fighters filled with passengers. Once we (and they) go to unmanned, then the latency of decisions will require less up-close fighting and much longer range engagements. Acro performance won't even be a thing. Cheaper, more efficient platforms will result in more platforms carrying more missiles shooting in much bigger hairballs. I'll take old-style few elite knights on horses swinging at each other over the hordes of drone infantry decimating a country-side.