/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3885561
Personally, I don't think air-to-air UCAVs will be ready by the time Gen-6 comes around. My uncle works for General Atomics Aeronautics, building and repairing prototypes out at the Apple Valley facility, and by the sound of things, UAVs don't stand a chance against manned aircraft in ATA combat, and won't for a LOOOONG time. With the Sea Avenger, which is intended to operate in contested airspace, they aren't even bothering with an RWR, since they acknowledge that if the drone is pinpointed by a radar threat, they're fucked anyways.

Besides, the issues of pilots' physiological limitations limiting the performance of a fighter is highly overrated; notice that the F-15C, the backbone of the USAF's air superiority fleet, is operationally limited to only 5 Gs now due to fatigue, yet it STILL continues to kick ass and take names.