Beyond-visual-range (BVR) fighting did not emerge as a significant aspect of aerial warfare until the 1950s, but it has become increasingly important as detection technology has advanced. The recent ...

In the world of combat aviation, there's a famous lesson. One must fly with their head, not the muscles. Follow that golden rule, and the pilot lives a long life. Putting more faith in muscles means ...

After riding in the front seat of an F-16 fighter jet controlled by artificial intelligence, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he can see a future where AI agents will fly in war—and will do it ...

Pentagon responds to damning test pilot report. In this image released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-35C, conducts a test ...

Aerial combat took place between a manned jet and an artificial intelligence-controlled modified F-16 in a groundbreaking test, the U.S. military has said. A heavily modified two-seat F-16D X-62A, ...

According to DARPA, the goal of the ACE program is to increase trust in combat autonomy by using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its challenge problem, while it also serves as an entry ...

Early in the Vietnam War, the United States Navy and Air Force learned the hard way that training against each other in identical airframes was not really effective in actual aerial dogfights, where ...