DARPA Automates Dogfighting To Develop Pilot Trust In AI In Combat

Graham Warwick March 27, 2020
F16
The Lockheed Martin F-16 will represent aircraft with digital flight controls in DARPA’s AI-automated dogfighting demo.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
A pair of machine-controlled aircraft dogfighting against a pair of human-piloted fighters in the skies over Nevada—that science fiction scenario is one potential culmination of a new DARPA program to automate air combat maneuvering using artificial intelligence. The Pentagon advanced research...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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