BUCKLEY SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians trained together on F-16 multirole fighters on Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado.
The Air Force hopes that teaching AI to dogfight -- perhaps the hardest flying style to master -- will make it easier to autonomously fly other missions.
The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) first started testing a Lockheed Martin X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft) fitted with AI software back in December 2022, part of the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. Able to mimic the performance characteristicsRead Entire Article
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that he plans to ride in the cockpit of an aircraft operated by artificial intelligence to experience the technology of the military branch’s future fleet. Kendall spoke before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel on Tuesday, where he spoke about the future of air warfare being dependent on autonomously operated drones. In fact, the Air Force secretary is pushing to get over 1,000 of the AI-operated...
“It’s a unique situation. There's absolutely no intention to make any other changes, moving things out of the Guard," said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
(FOX40.COM) -- One of Travis Air Force Bases KC-10 Extenders will not be subject to the scrapyard and instead will live out retirement as a display aircraft at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Ohio. On Monday, the museum began sharing photos and videos of KC-10 Serial Number 84-0191 arrival, dawning []
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The F-35 fighter jet program will cost taxpayers more than $2 trillion over its lifetime, cementing its place as one of the most expensive weapons programs in U.S. history, according to new estimates from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), an independent government watchdog.The new price tag represents a dramatic jump from a 2018 estimate that set the program’s total cost at $1.7 trillion. Most of the bump comes from projected sustainment costs, which increased by 44 percent to a cool...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell is set to test out an AI-controlled F-16. The United States Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendell, will reportedly be one of the non-pilot testers of an artificial intelligence-controlled jet, who will observe firsthand how the cutting-edge F-16 aircraft operates in the air.
GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE: At about 1 p.m. local time here, Grand Forks Air Force Base security forces received a report of a single gunshot near the medical clinic and base exchange. Out of an abundance of caution, they issued a lockdown to respond to the situation. As of 2:30 p.m., no injuries are reported and law enforcement is
WASHINGTON >> The Air Force is betting a large part of its future air warfare on a fleet of more than 1,000 autonomously operated drones, and later this spring its top civilian leader plans to climb into an artificial intelligence-operated warplane and let it take him airborne.
Senior Air Force officials told U.S. lawmakers that they are "out of time" in modernizing their forces to meet the threats of China and other adversaries. Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and top-ranking military leaders from the Air Force and Space Force shared their chilling warning to a House committee on Wednesday. "Time is my greatest concern — we are in a race for military technological superiority with a capable pacing challenge," Kendall told the House Armed Services...