This episode was a blast! Hearing two pilots interview an F-22 pilot was incredibly insightful. The stories and technical details were fascinating, even for someone like me who isn’t in aviation. Highly recommend checking this out for a unique perspective on the F-22 Raptor! ✈️ #AviationEnthusiast #F22Raptor

Does anyone else think the f22 may have had another kill that they just don’t talk about? Or is that just me lol. Good stuff though guys!

Great “reality” discussion. I was in the Navy in the 1980s when F-18 deliveries hit their stride in the fleet, replacing the A-7. The Hornet was like receiving an alien piece of advanced technology and materials. After the initial jaw-dropping awe subsided and the honeymoon ended, I realized that for all the great things computer-driven systems bring… they also introduced a new source of maintenance issues that were significant and created readiness issues that still as prefalent todayand possibly even increasig. Computer systems are only as good as the programmers and hardware manufacturer can make them and no mater how good, they alwys have issues affecting the safety of flight. Don't get me wrong, on a whole, these systems are much more reliable than what they replaced. But they are not infallible or bulletproof. When I started flying for airlines, I found that 90% of the issues we had when in preflight checks were computer and sensor errors. The same can be said about in-flight system issues. Initially maintenance would have us pull circuit breakers to attempt a reset. This often worked as a temporary solution but the error codes or misalignment errors often took an aircraft off line. I mention this because the one of the most commonpre flight and in flight mechanical discrepancies, regardless of manufacturer (Bombardier, Airbus, Boeing, etc), were errors and malfunction of modern electronic systems that manage flight controls, systems and navigation. I think the thing that bothers me the most is so many pilots are terrified of hand flying the aircraft when the autopilot or GPS maps no longer work. It actually keeps me up at night knowing that a crew may keep turning on a “smart” computer driven flight system that is malfunctioning because they are afraid to hand fly and find themselves disoriented. The two Boeing Max crashes had pilots who could have turned off the malfunctioning systems and just flown the aircraft themselves to a safe landing destination. We had a similar issue with one of our regional airlines Bombardier equipment. The difference was when the aircraft stall control system forced the nose over, I commanded pushers” every single crew immediately turned off the autopilot, turned off the malfunction stall system and flew the aircraft by hand back to the airport. The point of all of my ramblings is… I think unmanned fighters or bombers is risky in many ways and I hope we never see these aircraft without an aircrew. Beyond the potential malfunctioning systems.. if we are using a data link to control the aircraft, no matter how secure or robust we make that system, the enemy will find ways to attack those links as they will be the best bang for the buck and most efficient way to disrupt or destroy a large portion of our combat capabilities. The nexgen fighters are going to cost ?200,000,000 plus. We are not going to purchase anywhere near enough of them. It would be foolish to not man these platforms and ensure the AI controlled systems are monitored and controlled by a pilot and WSO.

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Exactly, how unjammable is an unjammable system? AI will really have to get good to safeguard against EW that could make a platform abort, or screw up a mission that can endanger lives.