The CEO of "SpaceX, Neuralink, Tesla, Boring Company and you continue" Elon Musk is making headlines again by launching a new discussion point and a new prediction.
Speaking last week to a room full of US Air Force pilots, tycoon Elon Musk bluntly told them that "the era of human-piloted fighters is over." To bring it back it's CNBC.
De profundis for fighter pilots aboard an aircraft
Musk's comments come on the sidelines of the Air Warfrare symposium in Orlando, Florida on Friday. The substance of the speech is that, according to Musk, Remotely controlled drones, not extremely expensive fighter jets, are the future of military aviation.
“Drone fighter warfare is where the future is going,” Musk said. Opposite him is the displeased (the media say) lieutenant general of the Air Force John Thompson, present at the event. “It's not the direction I want him to go, I just think it's what will happen in the future.”
What will happen to trillion-dollar fighters like the F-35?
Musk's prediction also extends to aircraft such as the American F-35 fighter, the hi-tech "monster" developed by Lockheed Martin and at the center of much controversy.
The design and construction of this fighter cost the Pentagon (and American taxpayers) over a trillion dollars. Needless to say, these expenses were also passed on to other countries in the world, "warmly invited" to invest billions of euros to purchase an aircraft full of difficulties, with catastrophic tests.
The problem? The man
“A drone fighter controlled remotely by a human, but with its maneuvers augmented by autonomy,” Musk wrote in a tweet following the meeting, “wouldn't give the F-35 any chance.”
Another prediction in the name of a future characterized by "deadly machines" with ever less human presence, and ever more autonomy.
