My point here is that whether or not they ever actually wind up sending some trainees up against a drone, the claim is so absurd that one wonders why they bothered saying it: of course this research is for making fighter drones which can be used in combat, a five-year old child (who reads the NYT and is a prodigy) could see this.

Still, it's interesting to see the progressive powerlessness of fighter pilots and open testing of fighter drones.