Shield AI, a US defense technology company based in San Diego, has announced a pioneering advancement in military aviation with the unveiling of the X-BAT, the world’s first autonomous vertical take ...

Runways are undesirable locations for military aircraft. Being tied to miles of concrete gives jet aircraft a built-in vulnerability as well as restricting their flexibility. At sea, it is extremely ...

Shield AI unveils ‘X-BAT’: New vertical take off automated fighter jet The U.S. defense startup says the AI-piloted jet can launch without a runway and operate in denied airspace.

The US Navy has completed a second demonstration of autonomous flight control software using Kratos BQM-177 target drones, ...

Thrust-vectoring makes impossible maneuvers possible. The huge, powerful jets can perform extremely tight turns that ...

There are so many kinds of drones out there serving the needs of the military that it's pretty difficult to make sense of them all. What we do know for a fact is that, at least publicly, there is no ...