Washington DC: The US Air Force is preparing to add to its fleet by 2023 jets that are equipped with artificial intelligence and are fully automatic and autonomous. The U.S. Air Force has reportedly allocated کروڑ 400 million in research funding to one or more companies to develop prototypes of these automated aircraft.
The automated aircraft built under the so-called “Skyborg” project, although able to fly in the form of detachments with pilot fighter jets, will also be able to be fully automated, capable of human intervention. Can perform any mission without it.
They will be built specifically for dangerous missions where sending humans or expensive fighter jets can cause severe loss of life and property. That is why there is an emphasis on keeping the production cost of Skyborg jets to a minimum.
According to the American defense magazine Defense News, the four companies vying for the Skyborg contract include Boeing Corporation and Lockheed Martin, which are considered rivals in the defense industry.
Interestingly, the technology to make fighter and bomber aircraft fully automated and autonomous is already in a state of flux, which is commonly used in today’s submarine drones and cruise missiles, but this is the first. There will be an opportunity to use this technology to build automatic and autonomous jets that are faster than sound and capable of flying multiple times like conventional warplanes.
Military experts say the successful completion of a Skyborg or similar project would revolutionize air warfare and could lead to “unmanned combat aircraft” instead of manned fighter jets on the battlefield of the future. (UCAVs) rule.