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The navy put the trigger finger into full computer hands all the way back in the fifties with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Tactical_Data_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Tactical_Data_System , which could automatically assign and direct ordinance towards incoming threats, and could even give orders to piloted aircraft without human intervention, though this functionality was not always in effect.