The case for Armor Units

hcobb · 08-16-2017, 03:55 PM

The Pentagon's Third Offset is retaining "human in the loop" for kill decisions, and it's a good thing.

Take the F-35 (please). How can the programmers judge years ahead of time which faint stealth blips are actual hostiles, which are decoys and which are civilians or incapacitated friendlies? It requires human level judgment (which is constantly only a few decades in the future of course), because the cost (in ammo alone!) of firing automatically at each blip is too high.

Hence if your human is distracted you'll pilot the vehicle to avoid running into anything while firing only in point defense. I.e. the GEV "D" result.

08-16-2017, 03:55 PM	#1
hcobb Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacheco, California	The case for Armor Units The Pentagon's Third Offset is retaining "human in the loop" for kill decisions, and it's a good thing. Take the F-35 (please). How can the programmers judge years ahead of time which faint stealth blips are actual hostiles, which are decoys and which are civilians or incapacitated friendlies? It requires human level judgment (which is constantly only a few decades in the future of course), because the cost (in ammo alone!) of firing automatically at each blip is too high. Hence if your human is distracted you'll pilot the vehicle to avoid running into anything while firing only in point defense. I.e. the GEV "D" result. __________________ -HJC