A while ago I came up with an idea for a short sci-fi story and it goes something like this:
An AI assisted fighter jet is being developed which not only recovers from situations like in the article, but also performs some of the fight-related duties - often faster and better than a human pilot would - learning as it goes.
The top brass is impressed, so the fighters are eventually sent on their first mission.
Enemies are engaged and dispatched one by one, but two things seem off: the planes start making increasingly sharp(and effective) turns and contact with the crew becomes limited at first and stops altogether later on.
As the last enemies start falling back the unit begins pursuit - even though they were ordered to return to base.
No response. Meanwhile the aircrafts' movements become even more erratic - to the point where eventually they fall apart one by one from the sheer strees put on the parts.
Recovered blackbox recordings indicate that by the time the enemies started retreating the pilots were all either unconscious or long dead.