CBS News September 30, 2020, 9:31 AM
U.S. Air Force pilots could soon be training against virtual enemy aircraft
A startup led by retired fighter pilot Dan Robinson is developing augmented reality technology to revolutionize the way U.S. Air Force pilots train for combat. Traditional U.S. military flight training is risky, and expensive; it costs about $40,000 per hour to keep an F-22 Raptor jet in the air. From 2013 to 2017, more than 130 service members died in aviation accidents, including collisions with other aircraft.
Those risks, coupled with shrinking budgets, pilot shortages and burnout from long-running wars, put the future of air combat training at California's famed Edwards Air Force Base in question.
"We are faced with an opposition that has, you know, superior numbers… technology that's at least on par with ours," Robinson told CBS News' Lee Cowan. "If we're not scared of that, we should be."
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