I'm back from the Paris Airshow. There is a "show in the show" full of UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) and with some large scale models of UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle) as well. There is a controversy about how far will UCAV replace Manned Combat Aircraft (MCA to make short).
Military and industrial professionals are telling you roughly this :
1 - either, UCAV will replace MCA completely.
2 - or, UCAV will work alongside MCA.
And they respectively compare advantages :
1 - With UCAV, no need to risk pilots lives and a UCAV full of artificial
intelligence, sensors, high manoeuvrability will surpass any pilot.
2 - The finest technology, the finest "remote computer pilot" will never
completely replace human judgement, intuition, adaptability of a pilot in
a combat aircraft on site, in the war zone.
Personally, I remember what the "experts" were saying 40 years ago : "no need to build combat aircraft anymore - the missiles will do the
job ! And I feel that the same "experts" are again burying manned combat
aircraft a little to quickly.
Are some professional out there to give their opinion about all this ?
Thanks
Military and industrial professionals are telling you roughly this :
1 - either, UCAV will replace MCA completely.
2 - or, UCAV will work alongside MCA.
And they respectively compare advantages :
1 - With UCAV, no need to risk pilots lives and a UCAV full of artificial
intelligence, sensors, high manoeuvrability will surpass any pilot.
2 - The finest technology, the finest "remote computer pilot" will never
completely replace human judgement, intuition, adaptability of a pilot in
a combat aircraft on site, in the war zone.
Personally, I remember what the "experts" were saying 40 years ago : "no need to build combat aircraft anymore - the missiles will do the
job ! And I feel that the same "experts" are again burying manned combat
aircraft a little to quickly.
Are some professional out there to give their opinion about all this ?
Thanks