Star Trek: The Original Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

> In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise visits a planet engaged in a completely computer-simulated war with a neighboring planet but the casualties, including the Enterprise's crew, are supposed to be real.

You could even host some Iranian Revolutionary Guard members on site at the drone facility to do the deed.

Thanks for this^. I needed a good laugh!

They did that in a Star Trek episode, more or less. "You have been assigned as dead. Please report...etc" so they could preserve infrastructure, which is so much more valuable than human life.

It would! But if you have to put a human in the vehicle, children take up less space and can probably handle more G forces than an adult.

Morally not possible.