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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Likely there will be no such thing as a 6th gen fighter jet. The pilot will be replaced by AI, so the next gen will have completely different requirements.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I don't think the "pilot will be replaced by AI". I think there will just be drones that look nothing like fighter jets. Some might have a certain amount of autonomy, which is vaguely similar to "AI". Others will be controlled remotely. Still others will probably be a mix, like a swarm that's human-controlled but where the individual drones in the swarm are somewhat autonomous.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    There's no way remote-controlled drones are going to be top-shelf items in the next generation. Even now, comm interference pretty much prohibits the use of remote-controlled drones in any scenario which involves actual armies rather than shepherds with AKs. That's why Ukraine uses fiberoptic cables for their FPV drones. Beyond that, in a real war satellite constellations will go down real fast.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think we know what the next war is going to be like. Yes, radio interference is a major challenge with the current generation, but there are already partial work-arounds like fiber.

    Yeah, it's unlikely that the next generation will be 100% remote controlled with no local autonomy because that requires a high bandwidth. But systems with a moderate amount of autonomy might be fine.

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