First of all how many years have we been hearing about how we'll have fully autonomous vehicles just around the corner? At least a decade.
How many years have we been hearing that human-like AI is just around the corner? At least since the 60's.
I'm skeptical (although optimistic) about massive tech breakthroughs in general. Even more so when it comes to military tech since so many in the mil. industrial complex stand to benefit from the trillions that the DoD sloughs off every few years for the next big thing.
Not an aviator but spent almost a decade in the military. You used to hear all the time about the latest and greatest tech that was going to change the way we fight.
At least in my nearly 10 years nothing really changed in any substantial way. incremental improvements, sure but no massive breakthroughs like are continually trumpeted in popular press.
I hope you're right though!