The Perfect Wingman (ep. 186)
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Former #usairforce F-15E WSO Mike 'Pako' Benitez describes how future fighter pilots will train alongside and go to war with unmanned 'collaborative combat aircraft', sometimes also known as 'loyal wingmen.'
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"Take out bandit 9 o'clock high!"
"Sorry I can't do that, Dave."
haha. 3001: A Drone Odyssey 🤖
"Sorry Dave, that is my girlfriend, I've been talking online to her for the past 5 months, she has great transistors and a data socket I want to plug into"
Great show, PAKO always has very interesting subjects to speak about. I agree he should be the next Moochie award winner.
One always comes away a little smarter listening to Pako talk defense matters. As someone with a part 107 drone license, I'm eager to see how the FAA accommodates these defense drones, and whether or not such technology will creep into civilian or law enforcement capacities, which in some degree is happening.
In the near to medium term is seems the most useful applications are to carry extra fuel and weapons, so instead of building a crewed airplane with 2-3 times as much max gross as an F-35 you send 2-3 CCAs with it carrying extra fuel for each other or the crewed platform or carrying additional weapons. When dropping stand in air to ground weapons you can just send them the last leg of the mission into the high threat area and the fighter pilot is just there to both manage the flight as a whole and fight anything that comes up to contest the mission and requires more complex tactics than just flying straight and level.
"Five sided wind tunnel ... just broke me up ... I was laughing so hard I had to pause the video to catch my breth.
That was funny
The Merge is incredible
PAKO's the best. My Moochie award candidate.
I've seen Pako before, great guest. Thanks Jello.
Love Pako. ALWAYS a learning experience!
Thank you!
The comment on the debrief is imho very valid, very easy to adapt a pilot to a new threat but CCAs programmer will need to be educated, programme written, validated, tested and updates completed
Bravo! Love Pako
Great discussion guys. PAKO (as it is an acronym) is amazing. The AI systems being developed sound like there are lots of rabbit holes to run down!
Excellent program.
Good to see paco getting some air time I enjoy his content.
Great episode. What a fascinating discussion. Paco's job sounds really fun.
Holy Crap! This is why we pulled out the swear jar when a “Five-Sided Wind Tunnel” weapons school patch showed up. 🤣 Incredibly smart American and glad I listened to one.
Good work Pako. 🍻
PAKO is the king av knowledge!
oh this is pretty cool and like hearing a prophecy years after it was spoken and come true :)
Is it just me, or Jello maintained a very gentle level of scepticism troughout the show? :D
That's what makes him such a great host. He doesn't just eat everything the guest SMEs throw on the table!
Great interview thanks. Much love from your allies across the pond 🎉
Give me any AI wingman I don't care - as long as I get to rescue Jessica Biel in North Korea, and we live happily ever after - I'm ok with that
This person is so smart. With such smart people, how do we end up with the presidential choices we have today. I’d vote for pako .
I always enjoy your show, sir! It's one of my favorites. As a pilot, I learn a lot from each of your guests! Greetings! 🫡
Thanks!
Excellent and very interesting episode.
Fantastic show, topic and guest. Learned a ton, but clearly there a lot of unanswered questions to be answered as this concept and the.various platforms and tech continue to be developed.
Great discussion, really enjoyed it! I’ve been subscribed to the Merge for some as well. Great stuff.
Great interview,I really appreciate all the visual snippets of hardware/aircraft as it's talked about,takes all the guesswork or pause and searching out and means I can enjoy the podcast even more,thank you, awesome as always 👌👍
Fascinating topic about AI platforms in aerial combat. Cudos to you. As always, Fly Navy! ⚓✈️⚓ Beers to you!🍺🍻
Our curent era reminds me of the heady days prior to WW2 where the new technolgy of military aviation was changing quickly and there were many competing theories about how to employ it and what it's future roll would be. Just as it did back then, I suspect the harsh realities of combat will determine which theory ultimately proves successful. Hopefully the Billy Mitchell's of our day are getting it right.
Well put
There are two groups of people when it comes to discussions about AI.
The first group are people who understand what the 'Fi' in Sci-Fi stands for.
The other group are fighter pilots.
Thanks…I think?
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Yeah, I think that was intended to be a compliment..
I read it as saying:
"Most folks only understand the "Fiction" part..where as fighter pilots are in a unique & 'highly classified' place, in knowing its not just Sci-Fi at all anymore..but soon to be science FACT!"
Or, I could be reading that wrong..I'm gonna give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
can you just imagine two pilots and fighters, and each have two drones following them. or you put 20 drones on B 52 who will insert drone to combat zone. Or a submarine could deliver a drone via a missile to the wherever the batt zone is in the world, and now the plane can have a virtual wingman/kamikaze.
Has USAF ever considered using perdix micro drone swarm as a counter measure instead of using flares?
X-62 Vista & XQ-67A
Wow 😎
And then skynet becomes self aware.....
You need to check out the opening of ep. 139. 😎
ua-cam.com/video/NqW-Vk9LASY/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FighterPilotPodcast
They built a HUGE hangar for a bunch of CCA’s out at that secret base northwest of Vegas….. 😉 🤫
No, no, that hangar was for the aliens.
Ssshhh! We don't talk about VFA Desert Voldemort..😂
Wow, I was unsubscribed to your channel, did anyone else had this? So I'm back here in luck. I resubscribed, very odd. I had it too with the channel from WAI. YT is having issues?
🤷🏻♂
A question. At the 40:30 min mark, Pako re-qualifies his initial CCA acronym for the fighters, to add the support types i.e. Autonomous Collaborate Platforms (ACP), so that got me thinking, when taking on fuel in the air with a KC-135 or whatnot, it flies on a "straight" trajectory (it's actually an orbit, but you all know what I mean) and the fighter jpck has to "dock" with the probe using his stick skills, which in turbulent air or at night can be somewhat difficult etc. Could an ACP tanker reverse the docking role and let the fighter fly "straight" and level in the orbit and the ACP tanker "docks" with the fighters probe using its 100hz micro adjustments ? Thus easing the stick skills needed to do it the traditional way currently ?
👽👽👽👽great info. Question: do flights or missions keep flying through solar eclipse or divert👽👽👽👽thx
Keep flying
Can't it be just ad-financed, like every other software? Because it looks like the future of aviation is becoming a Software business. I can see a 4-year cycle for software versions, but new capabilities on drones might take a lot longer to physically implement.
You alluded to future wars just being fought by machines. I believe that will become cost prohibitive thus moving us to sim wars and maybe peace. Thoughts?
I'm ordering Door Dash and watching this right now 😂 jk
Hah, well if you were--more power to ya! I recognize it serves a need and there are times, just not all the time (IMO).
2X2L calling CQ
...what does this mean?
Radio lingo.😊 like breaker 19!
@@keithcarpenter5254 oh. (How do I not know this?!)
A line of dialog from "The War of the Worlds."
At 2:17, what’s the emblem/badge that Pako has on his name tag?
One of his Marine HMM squadrons, not sure which. Maybe someone else will chime in...
HMM-265
there you go.
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Not the unit patch on his right breast… the symbol over his name on his left breast.
PAKO is obviously very smart and plugged in. Smart enough to give some examples and details without sacrificing intel. Good episode but could have been great without the coyness.
Good debrief item, thanks. I try to keep it lively, but am also drawing lines real time in my head. It's a balance I'm continually working to improve.
@TheMergeMedia Thansk, man. Sorry to be a d*ck about it. I just heard Jello struggling. I'm a career PAO in military and PR guy in the civilian world. Folks always beat the drum about opsec and confidentiality, but it often skews way too conservative. When we're trying to inspire and advocate, we need to tell a great story. In this case, details on what the future can look like can be delivered in big buckets of possibilities and not shot glasses of Intel that can be used by competition, state or industry. Keep on keeping on. But I'm sure you got your call sign drinking buckets on that crawl and not shot glasses! 😅
What is stopping the Chinese from stealing it./
Can’t believe a fighter pilot is voting for being replaced by a computer
Great Show and very interesting of our future fighters.....one concern I have is what "Pako" said about the Air Force being the largest smallest force with less and less flying assets. That is concerning and the Navy controlling when they will deploy the Navy jamming assets for AF missions. thats got to change and rebuild our great military forces.
"Navy controlling when they will deploy the Navy jamming assets" That stunned me! WTF! what happens if the Navy is in bad mood today?
I just can't get excited by drones at all 😬