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Originally Posted by jason taylor
I am saying that there is no way to do sufficient analysis without human coordination and that the coordination cannot be fleet based because the fleet must insert far enough out to avoid being blindsided which is in turn far enough out that there is indeed a considerable lag time. And fighter piloting in the context of hypothetical space combat and indeed in aerial combat has long meant simply "utility light combat vehicle" and there has not in fact been "fighters" for ages as "fighter" presumes the existence of "bombers" of which there has not been a need for. Dogfighting in fact will probably be a minor part of war except between belter statelets. But light spacecraft crewed by humans will certainly be required and self-defense or even opportunistic attack capability will probably be within them. Just as a Spruance still totes a gun even when most of her work is done with heliocopters.
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Well for air combat, strategic bombers are still quite useful in today's world due to their ability to be cruise missile trucks.
It's why the US & Russia still update and modernize their strategic bombers, because they can be used to launch cruise missiles far away from their targets' borders, often possibly far enough that the target can't reach them using conventional fighters.