Actually, re-reading your post made me realize that this has been tried before. The USSR had a philosophy that pilots were expendable, and that their aircraft w

Actually, re-reading your post made me realize that this has been tried before. The USSR had a philosophy that pilots were expendable, and that their aircraft were to be rigorously controlled by ground control intercept stations. These GCI facilities told the pilots every step of an intercept. The USSR also combined this control with extremely cheap aircraft (compared to Western counterparts). The idea would be that Central Europe would become a huge kill zone with swarms of Sukhoi and MIGs overwhelming the higher tech NATO fighters. This philosophy lasted until around the 80's with the introduction of the SU-27 and MIG-29 which were comparable in performance to their Western peers. The USSR was also alarmed at how easily the Israeli's dismantled the Soviet armed Syrian AF in the Bekaa Valley in 1982. This led them to the realization that the "quantity has a quality of its own" mantra had limits.