AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation

Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:45PM (#24239673)

Didn't say that's how modern aircraft do it. They dont. I envisioned future drone aircraft that behave like an aircraft and missile hybrid with a smaller radar cross section.

A large part of getting a missile to target is predicting where the target will be. Zig zagging hard and rapidly ruins the prediction and you don't have to do it all the time- only when it knows it's illuminated.

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Re:AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation by ska on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:08PM (#24239851)

IIUC The missile pretty much compellingly maintains it's advantage here for as long as the "hybrid" approach maintains non-missile-like design features. Which leads you to either giving up on the approach, or just observing that it's hard to hit a missile with an equivalent missile.

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