August 26, 2020 Military Aviation News

DARPA’s AI Defeats Air Force Pilot 5-0 In Head-To-Head Competition

08/26/2020

Heron Systems, the winner of a two-year Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) competition, yesterday fielded an artificial intelligence system that managed to not only outgun a top current U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and weapons school graduate but to score a flawless victory against its human opponent, winning all five dogfighting engagements.

BAE engineers shed light on digital design concept for Tempest fighter

08/26/2020

The concepts demonstrate how leading engineers are embracing one of Britain’s biggest engineering challenges for the next decade faster than ever before using a digital approach. Using the latest digital twin technologies, conceptual shapes for the aircraft have been virtually designed and tested, with high-performance computers able to calculate the aerodynamic performance of different aircraft features and test pilots taking Tempest to the skies from a ground-based simulator.

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