Mustafa Bilal
Top Gun: Maverick begins with Rear Admiral Cain alluding to how Maverick and human pilots in general will have no place in the future of air combat. Maverick’s response is calm but defiant: ‘Maybe so, sir, but not today.’ The scene may be fictional, but it reflects current developments in military aviation as technological advances in increasingly autonomous uncrewed aircraft are disrupting long-standing doctrines developed around manned aircraft.
The future that Maverick dismissed may be coming sooner than many thought, and in some respects may already have arrived. Two collaborative combat aircraft (CCAs, fighter-like drones) made pioneering shots of air-to-air missiles late last year. There were differences between the level of autonomy that was achieved. And, when CCA’s are operational, there will probably be enduring differences between the level of autonomy that’s allowed.
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