Artificial Intelligence and the new technologies are radically changing the nature of warfare. Drones have already made naval surface combatants and almost all formations of land armored vehicles obsolete. The technologies have also made helicopters and even fixed wing aircraft extremely vulnerable and not combat effective over a battlefield against a modestly technologically sophisticated opponent. Nor is is good for the foot soldier who can be sensed or heard. The Ukraine war has demonstrated to war planners just how real these changes have become even when using the first versions of this equipment. The Armenian-Azerbagani war was instructive and predictive as the drone armed Azerbaganis quickly decimated Armenian armor.
What could go wrong? 🙄
I think I’ve seen this movie...
The original F-16 prototype would turn so quickly that no human being could possibly survive the turns it was capable of, they basically nerfed it to make a human pilot possible. They should unnerf it so that it has the greatest capability to dogfight. Then have the Drone brain pilot it
Odd, since Boeing already has the working Autonomous Wingman program.
HOW much does a military plane cost???
Seems expensive for “experiments”
Should have called it SKYHOOK.
Now AI has an air force.
...F-16 Viper...
F-16 Falcon.
I worked on F-16's up to 1990 and never heard them called Vipers. Where did that come from?
I built the AI that worked really well for this back in the’90s. But DARPA had to spend billions on the big companies for crap. I also told them to use the F-16 as a test bed, but it took them over 20 years to figure that out. And the current winning AI for air to air is essentially useless.
