US Air Force Flies AI System Onboard Subsonic Autonomous UAV Written 6 May 2021
Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie unmanned aerial vehicle launches at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, AZ., 9 Dec. 2020. | Credit: Staff Sgt. Joshua Kingn; Wikipedia; Public Domain
Military.com reports that the US Air Force announced Wednesday that it “flew an artificial intelligence system onboard a subsonic autonomous drone for the first time last month.” According to an Air Force news release, the “Skyborg autonomy core system, or ACS, was loaded into a Kratos UTAP-22 ‘Mako’ drone for a 130-minute flight test at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on April 29.” According to the release, the “Skyborg ACS conducted a basic flight and ‘responded to navigational commands while reacting to geo-fences, adhering to aircraft flight envelopes and demonstrating coordinated maneuvering.’”
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