介绍： Aerial combat

空战

Virtual mavericks

虚拟小牛

Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots. But they will be wingmen, not squadron leaders

战斗机很快就会有人工智能飞行员，不过他们只是僚机驾驶员，并非空军少校

Classic dogfights, in which two pilots match wits and machines to shoot down their opponent with wel...

介绍： Aerial combat

空战

Virtual mavericks

虚拟小牛

Fighter aircraft will soon get AI pilots. But they will be wingmen, not squadron leaders

战斗机很快就会有人工智能飞行员，不过他们只是僚机驾驶员，并非空军少校

Classic dogfights, in which two pilots match wits and machines to shoot down their opponent with well-aimed gunfire, are a thing of the past. Guided missiles have seen to that, and the last recorded instance of such duelling was 32 years ago, near the end of the Iran-Iraq war, when an Iranian F-4 Phantom took out an Iraqi Su-22 with its 20mm cannon.

传统空战中，双方驾驶员拼的是智慧和武器，炮火瞄准将对方击落。这种时代已经成为过去。导向飞弹已经可以做到这一点。据记载，最后一次此类空战发生在32年前，两伊战争接近尾声时伊朗的F-4幻影用它那20毫米的机关炮干掉了伊拉克的苏-22。

But memory lingers, and dogfighting, even of the simulated sort in which the laws of physics are substituted by equations running inside a computer, is reckoned a good test of the aptitude of a pilot in training. And that is also true when the pilot in question is, itself, a computer program.

不过记忆犹存。即便是用计算机中运行的方程式代替物理定律的模拟比赛，空战仍被认为是对训练中的飞行员能力的一个很好的测试。当试验者本身就是一个计算机程序时，情况也是如此。