Lockheed Martin, the defense giant, has just hit a major milestone in the world of military aviation by successfully testing a new collaboration between human pilots and AI-controlled aircraft. This breakthrough, announced on November 21, shows how artificial intelligence can be used to help fight battles in the sky—combining the skills of human operators with the speed and precision of AI.
In a recent test, Lockheed Martin's team demonstrated a new kind of air combat mission, where a human “battle manager” on the ground used a touchscreen to issue commands to AI-controlled fighter jets during a complex mission. The aircraft, two L-29 Delfin jets, were fully controlled by AI, while the human battle manager gave real-time instructions.
The mission itself was a simulation of an offensive counter-air operation, where the AI jets had to take on two enemy aircraft. The goal was to see how well the AI could handle real-world combat scenarios while being overseen by a human manager...
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