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Lookup the QF-4 and QF-16. US knows how to convert fighter jets into drones just fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_A_rEZoXSg https://www.youtube.com/watch

• jariel 6y ago
  This comment implies pilots could magically be replaced by tech, and yet, that tech has never been used in any real scenario - ever. Wonder why? Because the kind of control offered by said tech just isn't remotely suitable for real missions. Of course, a 'major directive' to convert f35s into drones would look like something else entirely and may possibly work, but it's all fiction for now.
• mrtksn 6y ago
  Sure, however it must be liberating to not have the "carry a human and keep it alive" constraints when when building the thing in the first place. Sizes can shrink, payloads can increase, mission objectives can omit parts like "come back to the base in one piece", manoeuvre limits can be stretched to the structural limits of the device, things like shaking might have greater margin for acceptance.