Die Drohnen kommen nach Red Flag

Die Drohnen kommen nach Red Flag

Every argument about autonomous combat aircraft eventually arrives at the same question, and it is not a technical one. It is whether the person in the cockpit will trust the thing flying off their wing. Frank Kendall, who ran the US Air Force as its Secretary from...
Die Wilden Wiesel kaum ausgepackt

Die Wilden Wiesel kaum ausgepackt

Two weeks ago the story was aircraft going home. Raptors leaving the Gulf for England, squadrons rotating out, a ceasefire holding well enough that the US Air Force felt comfortable thinning out its presence in the region. That lasted about as long as it took to write...
DARPA’s AI Just Flew a Real F-16

DARPA’s AI Just Flew a Real F-16

For two years the jets sat in a hangar at Eglin Air Force Base while engineers tore into their airframes and taught them to think. This week one of them finally flew — and for stretches of that flight, no human was flying it.The U.S. Air Force and DARPA have put...