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Using low-cost drones may finally give the Air Force a way to simulate a mass of advanced, fifth-generation fighters in training exercises.
Aggressor aircraft, traditionally manned platforms, play the role of an adversary and help pilots prepare for real-world conditions.
The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps are looking for cheaper ways of providing adversary training, with autonomous air vehicles to the fore.
The US Air Force (USAF) has begun building an unmanned ‘Aggressor' aircraft, dubbed Bandit. An artist's impression of the Bandit, which Blue Force Technologies will mature into a high-performance unmanned air vehicle design that pilots of US...
Share Blue Force Technologies is developing the REDMedium UAS, pictured in this concept flying with Lockheed Martin F-35As. Credit: Blue Force Technologies When Will Roper, the former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief, called for applying unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the adversary air mission in an interview in January with Aviation Week ( AW&ST Feb. 8-21, p. 46), the founder of an experimental aircraft prototype manufacturing company in North Carolina noticed. For two years, Blue Force Technologies has been developing a UAS called REDMedium to perform as much as 60% of the advers...