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The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) first started testing a Lockheed Martin X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulation Test...
The Air Force acknowledged the first successful AI dogfight was carried out by DARPA and test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base as aerospace tech enters the machine learning era.
In the recently disclosed flights, the ACE AI algorithms took control of a specially modified F-16 Fighting Falcon test aircraft designated as the X-62A, or VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft), at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), California. The demonstrations of autonomous combat maneuvers began last year.
The "nose-to-nose engagements" saw the dogfighting aircraft get as close as 2,000 feet at 1,200 miles per hour.
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The US Air Force has revealed that it carried out its first successful dogfight test involving an AI-controlled jet against a human pilot.