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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
A software failure on a manned aircraft is just a deadly. It doesn't matter if the connection between the ailerons (or whatever) is by fiber optic wire or by radio wave if the "Brain" interpreting the pilots actions on the stick fails the aircraft is doomed.
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It matters very well becasue a radowave connection is much more vbulenrable than a wire or fibre connection, and a human brain inside the mahcine can form an image of what is going on in an unnormal flight situation even when system fails, while the operator of a drone cannot once the comlink broke down. so the pilot in the first case has higher probabilities to take influence on the situatio, than the operator in the seconed case.
After all, there must be a reason why currently much many more drones fall out of the sky for unforseeable reasons even if they do not take enemy fire, than manned airplanes, both military and civilian, both private or commercial.
The intel gathering and ground attackl drones came first, the aircombat drones, not mentioning the fully autonomous drones, lag behind by several years. If even the first do not work reliably currently, how much less reliavbility you have in the latter - which are designed for the far more cmplicated task of air combat...?
the era of drones will come. But it still is many more years away than the milizary wants to make us beleive. After all, the military must paint an optimistic picture, if it wants to secure financial funding.