Getting Shot Down in a Fighter Plane Dogfight by a UAV Is Going to Be Embarrassing

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In the Hollywood movie Top Gun we saw young studs flying naval fighter planes, and they seemed to be quite cocky, arrogant, but also highly efficient, and skilled. Now then, in the future there will be fighter planes which are unmanned aerial vehicles, run by computer systems which will be doing the dog-fighting. It doesn't matter which country you go to it seems as if all fighter pilots, regardless of nation are equally as self-confident.

However, I would submit to you that there is a rude awakening coming for many of the fighter pilots in the world, not just in an allied nations, but also those rogue nations which may oppose us. What will a fighter pilot think going into combat perhaps knowing that the artificial intelligent autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle that they will engage with in a dogfight or combat is smarter, more adapted, and can take more G forces then they can? That's a scary thought isn't it?

In fact, for a self-confident fighter pilot, perhaps with an earned ego, it might be rather embarrassing, especially if they get shot down, and are able to eject from their fighter plane to live another day. What will they tell their friends, and fellow pilots? Will their fellow pilots see them as inferior, and lacking the talent, and skills necessary to be in that fighter squadron? Even if they are able to shoot down an unmanned aerial vehicle, will anybody really be impressed?

After all, they merely shot down a remote-control or an autonomous robotic aircraft - they didn't shoot down a fighter plane flown by a fighter pilot of another nation with near equal skill and ability. So this causes a huge philosophical and psychological problem for the modern-day fighter pilot, because if they get shot down, it proves they can't compete against a computer, and if they shoot down the computerized aircraft, no one is going to be too impressed because it is man versus machine, and humans are supposed to win; supposedly.

It will be difficult therefore for the fighter pilot to maintain is competitive edge, dealing with the psychological conundrum. However, it also may be a rather quick transition. In other words the concept of human fighter planes competing against superior and agile unmanned aerial vehicles may be short-lived. That transition time may only be 10 years long and eventually there will no longer be human fighter pilots, and it will be machine versus machine, not humans versus machines. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,500 articles by August 24th or 25th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..