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Shouldn't the title of this thread be "AI beats simulated fighter pilot in simulated air combat"?

Especially in an EA environment with weather

Who approved your screen name?

I love how he takes a swipe at Gen Welsh in there.

Pretty easy when it's 1s and 0s and the computer can see precise energy states at every given moment. Let's see your super bot do it in a real jet, in real 1v1. Show me that computer/camera/sensor setup go 1.0 Pk and I'll be impressed.

It appears that RAF pilots are experiencing the same issues as we are regarding pay, bonuses, retention, and value. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-pilots-quit-why-we-must-stop-telling-people-valued-tim-davies

16-12 (x4) F-15E WSO Seymour-Johnson (x2) RC-135 Nav Offutt (x2) RC-135 EWO Offutt (x2) C-130 Nav WV Guard (x2) B-1 WSO Dyess B-52 EWO Barksdale B-52 WSO Barksdale E-3 Nav Tinker E-8 Nav Robins C-130 Nav AFR Maxwell

https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=2801

He probably had his Sq/CC, OG, Wing/CC, Command Chief and Jag review his tapes and reassign him to a desk job accordingly. But they probably noticed that he had all of his career containers checked off, so they promoted him.

I would argue that some AF units dedicated to SOF support already excel at what the author is calling for with BAI. Despite his robust background in the subject (-15E WSO patch, DARPA fellow, etc.), he may have never really seen that side of the coin before. Not that air guys supporting SOF didn't get dynamically re-tasked often, but I personally didn't feel like "detailed integration" was missing all that often between myself and the ground forces. Other air players were a different ballgame - fighters would routinely blast into the stack right off the tanker and be tasked to gets effects on the ground very quickly, which I'm sure is not an easy task. BL: Being centrally controlled and bounced between numerous conventional units on a ad-hoc basis produces a far different experience than being directly chopped to a TF and working for the same people day-in and day-out, rotation after rotation. This BAI-like experience already exists in DoD and the author can get hooked up with some of the guys who are writing the book on it. Edit to add: my response above was apparently to this article: https://warontherocks.com/2016/06/how-afghanistan-distorted-close-air-support-and-why-it-matters/ Somehow got my wires crossed... Others nailed it re: the OP article. CAS in a high treat environment, to me, is a zombie requirement that needs to die a real death. If we're doing CAS or have ground forces in those environments for that matter, we've ticked up massively already.

Ability to do it and willing to do it are what separates fighter pilots from the rest of the paste eaters. I can train a monkey, I can't teach you how not to be a pu$$y.

Except that the last time you were TDY to MacDill, the Spanish still owned Florida.

Most of us weren't around back then. Good to see you still remember it like it was yesterday.

RPAs are today's navs. SC