What happens when a fighter no longer goes to work alone? The answer is beginning to reshape the logic of air combat. “Loyal wingman” drones, now formalized in U.S. Air Force terminology as ...

The U.S. Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement to seek technical proposals for a potential $400M program that aims to advance prototyping and experimentation work on Skyborg unmanned air ...

In this video, we explore the exciting possibilities of AI-controlled drones, particularly the Skyborg concept developed by the U.S. Air Force. Skyborg envisions an autonomous or remotely piloted ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The ultimate goal of the Loyal Wingman initiative is to pair manned, fifth-generation stealth fighters with unmanned versions of ...

As AFRL targets its investments on transformational capabilities, the lab wants to have three to six Vanguard programs in development at any one time. Military Times ...

General Atomics’ new air combat drone has flown, another step toward what the Air Force is calling the “first of a second generation” of autonomous aircraft. The drone, called the XQ-67A, is derived ...