An AI fighter jet was created to reduce human casualties and create a new method for in-flight combat.
During the test phase, Hefron said the F-16 took off and landed in varying conditions, adversaries, and utilizing simulated weapons capabilities, but ACE did not take note of any issues. The ACE program is also being supported by the Test Pilot School to provide additional training and information to discern the level of comfort pilots have when flying an AI jet.
Additional tests include whether the pilots trust the jet in visual-range air combat, also known as a dogfight, while the pilot simultaneously focuses on “larger battle management tasks in the cockpit.”The autonomous F-16 jet is just one out of more than 600 AI Department of Defense projects and has been funded by the U.S.
reported. But in 2022, the government is reported to have spent $2.58 billion on AI research and development such as building robots and wearable technology. Stacie Pettyjohn, the director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, told that the AI F-16 jet will “decompose our forces” in what DARPA calls “mosaic warfare.” This advancement will allow for limited casualties because fewer humans will be needed to man the jets.“These much smaller autonomous aircraft can be combined in unexpected ways to overwhelm adversaries with the complexity of it,” Pettyjohn said. “If any one of them gets shot down, it’s not as big of a deal.”
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