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The Air Force is still hampered by production delays and cost overruns in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost an estimated of $1.7 trillion. Smaller and cheaper AI-controlled unmanned ...
Two alternative autonomous AI systems have been installed in a General Dynamics X-62 VISTA at the Air Force Test Pilot School. The two systems flew the aircraft in turn, on 9 December 2022. By 16 December 2022 the X-62 Vista had flown eight sorties using ACE, and six sorties using AACO, at a rate of two sorties per day. [31]
The Skyborg project is a United States Air Force Vanguard program developing unmanned combat aerial vehicles intended to accompany a manned fighter aircraft. [1] As of 2020, contracts have been awarded to Boeing, General Atomics, Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems and Northrop Grumman. [2] [3]
The Air Force requested $559 million in the 2025 budget to continue research and development of the future CCA air system. “The initial role for the aircraft was going to be counter-air, but it will have the potential to do other things,” Kendall said. The drone fleet is also expected to be cheaper than developing new manned jets, Kendall said.
The Air Force is still hampered by production delays and cost overruns in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost an estimated of $1.7 trillion. Smaller and cheaper AI-controlled unmanned jets are the way ahead, Kendall said. Vista’s military operators say no other country in the world has an AI jet like it, where the software first ...
The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into one of ...
An AI-powered fighter jet took the Air Force's leader for a historic ride. What that means for war; Experimental F-16 fighter jet takes Air Force secretary on a history-making flight controlled by AI, not a human pilot; Google, Justice Department make final arguments about whether search engine is a monopoly
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall got a taste of that advanced warfighting this month when he flew on Vista, the first F-16 fighter jet to be controlled by AI, in a dogfighting exercise over ...