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China Will Field a Sixth Generation Fighter Before America Can - Expert Highlights Why
(militarywatchmagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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If you are describing computer assisted, fly by wire systems... you've basically got it backwards.
The human inputs a desired command to the yoke and pedals, and the computer translates this from an absolute, direct command to the control surfaces, into a smoothed out set of inputs that takes into account all the other flaps settings and trim levels and slight difference in thrust between different engines and accounts for a difference in center of gravity due to different fuels tanks being differently full or empty and all that kinda stuff.
If you are describing a system on board an aircraft that engages some kind of autopilot for evasive manuevers in a missile lock scenario, that's news to me and I'd love to learn more about it... as far as I am aware, especially on a military aircraft, you'll have systems like 'bitchin betty' that'll scream commands at you, but I've never heard of a system that takes control away from the pilot and then makes extreme manuevers.
(Outside of the recent Boeing Max MCAS problems, they were not designed to do extreme manuevers, but malfunctioned due to software bugs and instrument failures... oh and Boeing didn't fucking tell the pilots it was even on the aircraft, nor how to actually turn it off when it fucked up)
As for the network latency, it could be significantly worse effective latency than your 50 to 100ms depending on distance and atmospheric conditions causing packet loss, the signal may be being relayed through a variety of different systems... but all the specifics on that are or would be very classified.
And, I mentioned it in my other reply in this thread but not to you, but its relevant here:
You can jam a drone operator's signal. Happens all the time right now in Ukraine. That means your feed cuts out and you completely lose control.
Even worse, you can hack into it, hijack it, and gain control of the drone.
These are extremely significant problems with remotely operated weapons of war.
One potential solution to this is having an extremely advanced autopilot, to the point that its functionally an AI, running locally onboard the drone fighter jet, to make its own decisions should remote operator contact be lost.
But uh... go watch some Tesla FSD videos to see how that can go wrong...