End of age, man-only fighters? America ahead to produce full-power 'AI Wingmen' 🇺🇸✈️

End of age, man-only fighters? America goes ahead to produce full-power 'AI Wingmen'. 🇺🇸✈️

Global military and technology have just announced that General Atomics' FQ-42 "Dark Merlin" and Anduril's FQ-44 "Fury" are officially under the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, which is four months ahead of schedule.

These two models are designed to be "AI Wingmen," or artificial intelligence-powered squad aircraft, flying with human-controlled fighters like the F-35, F-22, or the next generation of fighters. Their main function is to take risks instead of human pilots, whether it's electronic warfare, reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, missile attacks, or even as decoys.

The amazing thing is that the US Air Force plans to bring more than 150 of these AI fighters into service by 2030 and set long-term goals of up to about 1,000. Military leaders see human-AI Wingmen collaboration to increase survival on the battlefield, increase weapons carrying capacity, and most importantly, dramatically reduce costs, because these AI aircraft have a target price of about $30 million each, which is about three times cheaper than the F-35.

This may be the turning point that tells us that the era of AI in the air battlefield has officially begun. What do people think about this point? Comments can be discussed! 👇

Sources: America's Robot Fighters Cleared for Mass Production

US Air Force Awards Simultaneous Production Contracts

New American Fighter Giant Emerges as USAF Selects Anduril and General Atomics

Anduril will build the USAF's first semi-autonomous FQ-44 Fury fighters.

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