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Post by End Zone on Mar 23, 2021 16:52:28 GMT -7
techxplore.com/news/2021-03-darpa-air-combat-evolution.htmlFor a cheap thrill, click on the website's video link. Experience at least the visual part of a man v. machine dogfight. In a human generation, pilots will be out of state of the art fighters and driving city buses. Computers have already relieved air crews of many flight tasks. Taking the 'stick' full time is next.
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Post by thomas cat on Mar 25, 2021 17:28:25 GMT -7
I read the article and watched the video.
We have seen this coming for some time. AI is the future to not only this but all kinds of things.
AI can look at and analyze countless parameters in a split second. Humans just can't do that.
The problem with AI, is there are so many variables that us humans must incorporate into the programming that we are bound to miss a few.
That's why driverless cars are close but not there yet.
Still the golden ticket to AI is to give them the ability to learn, just like us humans do. This will take time, but in the end, it will happen.
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Post by FLCardinalFan on Mar 26, 2021 11:49:05 GMT -7
techxplore.com/news/2021-03-darpa-air-combat-evolution.htmlFor a cheap thrill, click on the website's video link. Experience at least the visual part of a man v. machine dogfight. In a human generation, pilots will be out of state of the art fighters and driving city buses. Computers have already relieved air crews of many flight tasks. Taking the 'stick' full time is next. Artificial intelligence is going into the cockpit and take control. The Czech plane is the guinea pig. I edited your post today just to fix it so it would go under the quote Thanks PT
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Post by End Zone on Mar 26, 2021 15:11:12 GMT -7
techxplore.com/news/2021-03-darpa-air-combat-evolution.htmlFor a cheap thrill, click on the website's video link. Experience at least the visual part of a man v. machine dogfight. In a human generation, pilots will be out of state of the art fighters and driving city buses. Computers have already relieved air crews of many flight tasks. Taking the 'stick' full time is next. Artificial intelligence is going into the cockpit and take control. The Czech plane is the guinea pig. I edited your post today just to fix it so it would go under the quote Thanks PT Thanks, my friend! Back in the day, the 80s, when we were setting up on the SOCAL (southern CA) ocean and desert ranges for ACM (Air Combat Maneuvers) training, the senior officer in the flight said into his mic, "Fight's On!" A "fur ball" of 2-to-4 fighters, twisting and turning to get a first missile shot off just like in the video that I posted, ensued for a few seconds or maybe up to a minute if the crews were Top Gun trained. Only the best won.
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Post by thomas cat on Mar 27, 2021 18:16:04 GMT -7
I thought you might get a kick out of this. Granted its just a video game but at least to me, it seems close to what a real dog fight might be like and similar to the video from your link. I time stamped it to the relevant part..... F-14A Tomcat Vs 4 Iraqi Mig-25 Foxbat
Now I have no idea how realistic this is, but at the very least it shows you how complicated a dog fight can be with multiple targets and adversaries can be.
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Post by End Zone on Mar 28, 2021 3:10:20 GMT -7
I thought you might get a kick out of this. Granted its just a video game but at least to me, it seems close to what a real dog fight might be like and similar to the video from your link. I time stamped it to the relevant part..... F-14A Tomcat Vs 4 Iraqi Mig-25 Foxbat
Now I have no idea how realistic this is, but at the very least it shows you how complicated a dog fight can be with multiple targets and adversaries can be. The newest video games are far better than the training videos we used last century! The MiG Foxbat was the #1 Soviet air threat last century. For the Soviets, air combat was all about jet speed and long-range missiles. They practiced running down slower targets from behind and using Atoll IR missiles to pick up heat signatures and get easy kills. Maneuver and 'dogfighting' was secondary. And the Soviet and Warsaw Pact pilots all knew that F14 Tomcats and F15 Eagles could eat up Foxbats and Floggers for breakfast. Good discussion!
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Post by thomas cat on Apr 8, 2021 18:54:09 GMT -7
I just thought I would put this up for the fun of it. When I was just a kid, my dad had radio control air planes....at that age, naturally I thought that was cool as hell. This however is far more sophisticated than anything back then. F-14 RC Tomcat planeNotice the variable swing wing in action just like the real thing. I haven't kept up on RC planes, but some of the jets have actual real miniature jet engines. I'm not sure if this one does, but it kind of sounds like it. While I didn't follow in his footsteps, but lets face it....men and their toys will always be a fascination whether its railroad trains, slot car tracks ( my dad and me did that too. ) or RC plains. There is lots of fond memories there.
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Post by End Zone on Apr 10, 2021 5:25:44 GMT -7
I just thought I would put this up for the fun of it. When I was just a kid, my dad had radio control air planes....at that age, naturally I thought that was cool as hell. This however is far more sophisticated than anything back then. F-14 RC Tomcat planeNotice the variable swing wing in action just like the real thing. I haven't kept up on RC planes, but some of the jets have actual real miniature jet engines. I'm not sure if this one does, but it kind of sounds like it. While I didn't follow in his footsteps, but lets face it....men and their toys will always be a fascination whether its railroad trains, slot car tracks ( my dad and me did that too. ) or RC plains. There is lots of fond memories there. As a little kid, I HO-gauge trains. A cousin had a radio-controlled balsa wood bi-plane that was loud as heck and flew for a few minutes before coasting back to the grassy landing field. As a teen I had several tiny slot cars and raced often with other teens at the local mall shop. Ah, the youthful memories. Today, I see a few 'quadcopters' flying over homes in the neighborhood, taking still picks and videos, and then disappearing over the tree line, presumably back to the controller. I also like that real estate companies now post high altitude pictures of For Sale homes and the neighborhoods for prospective buyers. Lastly, it is ominous that I now see signs posted near some US government buildings declaring a quadcopter flying in the local airspace to be an illegal activity. Perhaps the US government is afraid of tiny aliens using quadcopters to invade the premises.
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