If anything from them, then speed.
Ace of aces, Adolf Galland once said that in the future fighters will only chase bombers at super sonic speed. He added that the planes are controlled from some sort of a bunker far away. So speed.
Human brain is also a computer with programming errors. Lets take a simple example: put your 2 finger across each other and try to feel the tip of your nose with these 2 fingers, in most of the cases people feel that they have 2 noses. It's a simple error in human brain while working on the information it gets.
Or if you fly into artic snow storm you could be flying 90 degrees nose down and still think you are doing a good job.
UCAV's will never be as good as manned fighters, humans have instincts, where as computers only do what you tell them
mm, so whats the difference? they are still manned in way or another, theres just no direct risk to the peson controlling it.
Imagine flying a R/C Su-37! That would be awesome!
Range could be unlimited, since they probably use satellites in orbit to link up the signals. But we all know how good that is, suddenly you loose contact and down it goes. ;)
I dont know the range of the Predator thats in use today. But dont they use a C-130 to follow for longer missions?
What if a fighter can outmaneuver a missile? it needs to turn tighter than the missile. So supermaneuvrability is of paramount importance.In the case of the MiG-29, yes I agree it will defeat stealth. You would have to use an active counter-measure to prevent use of a laser range finder. Stealth doesn't do that.
. Technically speaking, the act of changing course is a form of acceleration. In that respect, yes, I was referring to the inability of a fighter jet to avoid a missile impact through acceleration. It cannot out-turn a modern missile effectively.
I have to agree with RecceJet on this one as i voted for stealth. With the new missiles coming like the Meteor that are BVR and capabilities of speeds over Mach 3. I just dont think that a pilot today has the time to do diffrent manuvers to fool the missile, and as you both wrote. Every turn a pilot makes bleeds off speed from his aircraft. Today we are talking about milliseconds for a pilot to make the right decision, flares and turn. You get only one chance today.
Sam´s are a bit easier, since you are trying to avoid their firering envelope. They need to lock on before they can fire, so the pilot gets a few more seconds. Air to air is a bit diffrent, you dont get a warning until very late and then it can already be to late.
How much from those "dream missiles" can we put in a B-2 Spirit? I guess, we have the ultimate dogfighter.............
Airframe: Northrop B-2 Spirit
Radars: default
Engines: default
Avionics: default
Weapons: redesign current bomb-bays to multiple Vertical Launch Systelm (VLS) with modular launch canisters to take Python V and Meteor amongst others. Also retaining a small bomb-bay to carry AGM-142s and JDAMs internally since this feak-show airframe will probably catch its opponents on the ground.
All targeting information and missile guidance will be handled by AWACs or other airframes (refer to Tom Clancy stories) eliminating the need for my F/B-2 Spirit "I'm-Going-To-Crap-All-Over-Your-Air-Order-of-Battle" super-dooper fighter to light up any radars for target acquisition.
Additional pop-up launchers for Python V will be fitted along the wings to pop-up both above and below and have rotating turrets to take care of any stray opponent fighters.
Essentially, you could see this monster of a fighter aircraft as an aerial version of an Ohio class SSBN. It just flies into enemy airspace undetected and gives the opposition a bloody nose.
PS. I may have stretched the realm of reality a little to compensate for engineering shortcomings ;)
I think... Hydrogen is good to go.
I added the UAVs and I restarted the poll.