> immediately hit countermeasures without thinking
Out of curiosity, if this is the doctrine, why doesn't the plane just fire countermeasures automatically?
Out of curiosity, if this is the doctrine, why doesn't the plane just fire countermeasures automatically?
In the picture above you will see a dial for modes. They range from human tell the machine exactly what to do (via the PRGM dial and other switches), to human consent to what the machine wants to do, to machine do what you want to do.
In a more normal combat situation there's a lot more human judgement needed in the use of countermeasures. For example if a fighter locks you up and fires a missile from 50 km away and you fire chaff immediately you might temporarily disrupt their lock, but it's likely that the chaff will disperse and they'll be able to re-lock you before the missile gets anywhere close. You can't just fire them off continuously because it's a limited consumable.
Here is a link: https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1517817773199699977
-- In Military Countermeasures
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