Not much dogfight training happens over populated area’s. This would be being done over water or desert wastelands. The only issue you may have is a malfunction occurs on landing / takeoff but either way you are still screwed manned or unmanned.
What these are for is so that they can dogfight without the risk of going in to a flat spin or similar and requiring a pilot ejection. An ejection can be career ending for a milatary pilot as it often causes broken limb’s, spinal compression etc. When that happens you have just lost $$$ in training and also have to keep the pilot on medical/pension. If a drone spirals out of control and thuds into the desert who cares? The airframes are old and no longer fit for service due to too many flight hours etc.
