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New technologies, though, are set to redefine what it means to be a "Top Gun," as algorithms, data and machines take on a bigger role in the cockpit — changes hinted at in "Top Gun: Maverick"

Movie fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with the skills and experience to defeat adversaries in thrilling aerial dogfights. However, Algorithms, data and machines are taking on a bigger role in the cockpit.

Movie fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with the skills and experience to defeat adversaries in thrilling aerial dogfights.

FARNBOROUGH, England (AP) -- Maverick's next wingman could be a drone. In the movies, fighter pilots are depicted as highly trained military aviators with

The retirement of ‘Bravo November' earlier in March marked the start of the United Kingdom's plan to swap out some of its earliest Chinook heavy-lift transport helicopters with newbuild platforms in the coming years. Seen during operations i...

Industry partners of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA's) effort to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities into air combat are looking to apply those nascent technologies into other warfare domains. Senior o...

Video evidence emerged on Twitter on 16/17 March suggesting that the presence of effective Ukrainian-operated manportable air defence systems (MANPADS) is having a detrimental effect on Russian attack helicopter operations over Ukraine. A sc...

Russia announced the use of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal (Dagger) air-launched high-speed ballistic missile for the first time against a target in Ukraine on 19 March. A file photo of the Kinzhal air-launched high-speed ballistic missile fitted to it...

Can a computer pilot defeat a human pilot in a dogfight? DARPA seems to think so. It wants to turn human fighter pilots into drone managers, while artificial intelligence, or AI, handles the details of air combat. The Pentagon’s pet research agency has created the aptly titled ACE (Air Combat Evolution) project to develop artificial intelligence that lets the drones do the dogfighting while the human pilot controls the drones. “Artificial intelligence has defeated chess grandmasters, Go cha...

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