You are wrong
First of all, your meatball won't be able to lock his eyes befare his antique mig 21 is down.
Second, you don't have to replicate a human brain. In fact, you really don't want to, as human brains are terribly inefficient, and prone to errors, not to mention how slow they are or have very little "memory" they have.
Third. It is understood how nerves and individual cells interconnect, and it CAN be replicated, only that it is very different to replicate 10.000 cells or millions. What we don't really get is the globally detailed image (the forest and exactly how it works). We do mostly understand the tree
4. As for human evolution, whe did not evolve to fly planes, drive cars, etc. we are good at learning from experience and clasifying objects, as well as taking decisions and making analogies.
5. Autonomous robotic planes are the future, and vietnam is well into the past, I could also point out that cloth biplanes can't destroy my fleet of dreadnoughts..