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David Cummins is a veteran of the Iraq, Afghan and Libyan conflicts and saw the Royal Air Force change hugely during his 13-year military career. The 40-year-old, who began his stint in the air force flying the ageing Nimrod MR2, said that artificial intelligence is rapidly making human pilots redundant.

He told Express.co.uk: “I don’t believe they’ll ever develop another F-35 or Eurofighter-type jet.

“Military projects have huge lead times so the Eurofighters were developed in the eventuality of a war with the Soviets 30 years ago.

“The Eurofighter was decades in development and is a look at previous conflicts.

“I don’t believe we will ever see a new manned fighter jet – you may see one that was already on the shelf – but I can’t see them developing a new one.

“We’re at the birth of the AI revolution and if you can remove the human you will.

“After 21 hours of flying a manned aircraft, you’re not functioning properly.

“Over 24 hours you’d have four different crews flying a drone and they’d be functioning properly, thinking rationally and making better decisions.

“In the more extreme tactical fighters pilots can’t pull enough G-force, they can’t handle the things that computers can do.

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“AI reacts quicker and learns faster.”

Mr Cummins spent much of his career flying Predator and Reaper drones before he left the RAF in 2013.

He finished his military career as a Qualified Weapons Instructor – known in America as a Top Gun qualification – specialising in future weapons and utilisation.

Since leaving the military, Mr Cummins has used his military experience for civilian applications.

He is currently an executive director of The Virtulab and helped launch avatar-based virtual environment Virtuworx.

It uses the same technology originally made for drones to give employees an “immersive, real-world experience”.

He explained: “When they developed this technology it was absolutely essential that these drones relayed highly accurate live information to pilots.

“They might be sitting in a base in the UK or America – thousands of miles away from the drones but when they see a possible target they need to be able to zero in on it and assess whether it’s a threat or not.

“This required the technology to be truly cutting-edge to minimise the margin of error.

“While it was never envisaged with remote working in mind – this technology is perfectly suited to the format.”

Mr Cummings believes in the near future much of this military technology will be used to benefit people in civilian settings.

He said it will enable people to “make better decisions, reduce their travel, reduce costs and reduce carbon emissions”.

The Ministry of Defence has been contacted for comment.

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