Skyborg Calls For AI-controlled, ‘Fighter-Like’ UAV By 2023

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The U.S. Air Force’s new Skyborg project has a five-year deadline to produce a “fighter-like” prototype of an unmanned aircraft that uses a software-controlled “brain,” Air Force Research Laboratory officials and documents say. The AFRL’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE)...

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