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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 20, 2017, 09:27:16 am
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Autonomous Strike – a New Milestone in Manned-Unmanned Teaming
By Tamir Eshel -
Apr 10, 2017 2791
The US Air Force and Lockheed Martin’s advanced projects unit – the ‘Skunk Works’, have completed a series of flight tests demonstrating the teaming of a manned and unmanned fighter jets, participating in mock combat operations. During the flight demonstration, an experimental F-16 aircraft acted as a surrogate Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) autonomously reacting to a dynamic threat environment during an air-to-ground strike mission. The demonstration success included three key objectives:
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