Militaries tend, for the most part, to be very conservative organizations. It is hard to get them to change what they know (witness the demise of horse cavalry in the early twentieth century). There is still grand debate on the appropriate number of aircrew needed for any particular mission. Even with UAS, the number of operators remains a contested issue. I believe as aircrew become managers of air vehicles (like modern airliners), vice pilot, the arguments against single aircrew aircraft may change.Jemiba said:
In this case it seems to be that the Russians found that even with all the automation asking a pilot to also use all the verius weapons was gust to much work. Wich makes one wonder wether all those plans to have weponds controllers also control drones might also a bridge to far, especially with the leval of automation drones have these days.
Many were impressed with the design philosophy and wanted to move forward with their work. Unfortunately, they did not successfully team with any of the industry that actually had facilities and machinery to build and produce the aircraft.
