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19 Discovering Novel Fighter Combat Maneuvers: Simulating Test Pilot Creativity

(Smith and Dike 1995). For instance, one result was a variant of the well-

documented Herbst maneuver.

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"TWO-SIDED LEARNING" RESULTS

In more recent work with the fighter combat LCS, we have allowed both oppo-

nents to adapt under the action of the GA (Smith et al. 2000). This ongoing ef-

fort complicates the fighter combat problem and the interpretation of simula-

tion results. These complexities are best seen from the perspective of extant

literature on two-player games.

In many ways, the one-versus-one fighter ...