Lockheed Martin is using a modified F-16 fighter jet to teach artificial intelligence how to fly, maneuver, and eventually ...

From the outside, the simulated aerial dogfight the Pentagon held two weeks ago looked like a standard demonstration of close-up air-to-air combat as two F-16 fighter jets barreled through the sky, ...

Elon Musk criticized the F-35 and called crewed fighters obsolete in the drone era. Musk's comments align with tech leaders advocating for drones over traditional military assets. Drones can't yet ...

Seventh generation fighters are being designed around a simple, unsettling premise: the human body is becoming the limiting factor in air combat. As engineers push toward hypersonic speeds, ...

In a world-first, a warplane flown by artificial intelligence (AI) was tested in a real combat scenario against a human fighter pilot. The test was carried out by Swedish defense company Saab and ...

In a major evaluation of what the Pentagon has positioned as the future of air combat, Lockheed Martin’s secretive Skunk Works unit has simulated an air-to-air fighter engagement that saw a crewed jet ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Dogfights are all about reaction times, and computers have human pilots beat. Can a computer pilot defeat a human pilot in a dogfight? DARPA seems to think so. It ...

Air combat will eventually become artificial intelligence-powered systems battling each other, or at least that's what a group of researchers has predicted. A new report published in The South China ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a South London-based technology journalist, consultant and author This article is more than 5 years old. When an AI trashed a ...