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Shield AI is confident that its X-Bat autonomous combat aircraft will quickly find customers in Europe.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Shield AI has shown off the first prototype of its X-Bat tail-sitting, vertical-takeoff-and-landing autonomous combat aircraft and plans a first flight before year’s end.

Singapore's air force is testing the Shield AI V-BAT uncrewed aerial system as its military explores new operational concepts in the air littoral domain.

Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team will supply the radar and electronic warfare systems for the Shield AI X-Bat, an autonomous, VTOL combat aircraft.

2019 20 Twenties winner Akshay Kadhiresan went from F-35 engineer to building autonomous military AI at Shield AI—and briefing four-star generals along the way.

Airbus and the U.S. Army discuss four options for 215 UH-72A Lakota trainers including autonomous conversion for logistics and strike missions.

Airbus Helicopters is exploring an armed loyal wingman variant of its U145 uncrewed rotorcraft to accompany attack helicopters into combat.

Shield AI has received an additional $150 million investment from the U.S. Navy to support the X-Bat program, raising overall financing to $400 million.

Shield AI plans to offer the X-Bat uncrewed aircraft system to the U.S. Army as a replacement for the MQ-1C Gray Eagle, a top executive says.

Shield AI says it is nearly done constructing the first full-scale protype of X-BAT, its proposed autonomous combat aircraft system.

Shield AI has committed to support future production and sustainment in Poland of autonomous X-Bat combat aircraft.

Shield AI and Sedaro in July demonstrated the ability to upload autonomy and mission simulation software to a satellite orbiting Earth.

GE Aerospace is shipping its thrust vectoring AVEN nozzle to Shield AI for integration with the defense startup's F110-129E-powered X-Bat UAS.

Shield AI will receive $50 million from the U.S. Navy to help develop the X-Bat uncrewed combat air vehicle.

Shield AI and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated three drones working together as part of an autonomous search mission in Taiwan.

Shield AI is progressing on building its initial X-BAT autonomous fighters after it announced that it had fired its thrust-vectoring engine for the first time.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace successfully ground tested the X-Bat's Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle, designed for vertical takeoff and landing

As air vehicles move to production, the Air Force focuses on autonomy competition.

Shield AI’s proposed X-Bat already stands out as an autonomous, jet-powered, vertical-takeoff-and-landing, long-range strike aircraft, but company President Ryan Tseng adds another distinction.

Munitions assisted by Shield AI’s Hivemind software strike targets at a rate of 75% or higher in real conflicts, company President Ryan Tseng tells Aviation Week.

Since Shield AI unveiled its high-end vertical takeoff and landing collaborative combat aircraft last fall, there has been plenty of skepticism.

Airbus recently conducted a test flight of the autonomous H145 it is developing for the U.S. Marine Corps that for the first time integrated autonomy and edge computing from partner companies.

Shield AI has demonstrated the rapid integration of its Hivemind autonomy software by installing it into the Hornet uncrewed aircraft system.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) flew a mission autonomy system derived from the Shield AI Hivemind in two UAVs.