Combat drone to compete against piloted plane:
The US Air Force will pit an advanced autonomous aircraft against a piloted plane in a challenge set for July 2021.
The project could eventually lead to unpiloted fighter aircraft that use artificial intelligence (AI).
Lt Gen Jack Shanahan, head of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, called the test a "bold, bold idea".
Air Force Magazine also described the development of autonomous fighter jets as a "big Moonshot" for the military.
[...] When announced in 2018, the project envisioned the development of an unpiloted fighter jet.
Asked by Air Force Magazine whether this was still the objective, Lt Gen Shanahan said he did not know but added that AI-enabled systems could be used in other ways.
"Maybe I shouldn't be thinking about a 65ft-wingspan, maybe it is a small autonomous swarming capability," he explained.
Such swarms of drone aircraft could be deployed under a pilot's control or operate autonomously. A US military project called Skyborg will explore how the pilot of a fighter jet could control other drone aircraft - which would act as airborne sidekicks.
[Protoss] Carrier has arrived.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday June 06 2020, @07:37PM
Which in this case, happens to agree with the real world version of events. Nazi Germany did get its ass kicked so hard that it'll be in the history books long after everyone involved dies.
Sounds like your "race" isn't worth shit.
He annexed Austria, western Czechoslovakia, and then invaded Poland with the flimsiest of pretexts (faking attacks on a radio station), partitioning Poland with Russia. He then invaded a couple dozen more countries from France through the Balkans. Actions speak louder than your sorry excuses.
Not even wrong.