The United States Military Airforce is looking to replace the F-22 Raptor Fighter plane with aircrafts that will not need any pilots. Their target is to have by 2030 the new generation fighter planes which will have the pilots safe at home, flying the planes from a distance, still making them able of retrieving all the information needed to fly and controlling the planes.
This will also empower the pilots to make radical maneuvers which could not be achieved with manned aircrafts due to their high risk. This of course will change any future warfare, creating many ethical problems, as was the case with the war in Yugoslavia, where NATO only fought via the air. Not even Carl von Clausewitz' s book 'On War' will be relevant any more, since the ethical and human part of a war will be non existent, except for the rising collateral damage which will not be considered, since this might be seen as a computer game...
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