For a little over three years, the concept of Loyal Wingman or Remote Carrier has established itself as an essential component of the design of combat aircraft in…
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With the Longshot, DARPA is developing its own airborne combat drone
A drone dropped from a fighter to penetrate the adversary's airspace, and capable of firing air-to-air missiles at enemy aircraft and drones: this is the objective of the Longshot program initiated ...
Read the articleBritain launches development of its own "Loyal Wingman"
The principle of the allied drone, an autonomous device but controlled by a piloted combat aircraft with which it would act in concert, seems to have imposed itself in the large majority ...
Read the articleSummary 2020: Major technological advances in Defense in 2020
If 2020 will go down in history as the year of the great Covid-19 pandemic, it will also be, concerning Defense technologies, a pivotal year marking the transition between the vision ...
Read the articleRussian S-70 Okhotnik stealth combat drone tested with air-to-air missiles
Westerners often have the unfortunate habit of plastering their own tactical and strategic views on the armies and equipment of other countries. This is how many military experts and commentators ...
Read the articleRussia to develop its own Loyal Wingman-type drone
The Russian Kronstadt Aircraft Group has revealed that it is designing a Loyal Wingman-type combat drone for the benefit of the Russian Air Force. Designated by the name Grom (thunder), the drone ...
Read the articleA new fighter pilot vs artificial intelligence confrontation at the end of August for the US Air Force and DARPA
Can artificial intelligence defeat a pilot trained in swirling combat? This is the question that the DARPA AlphaDogfight Trials program set out to answer.…
Read the articleUS Air Force could turn transport planes into bombers, and more
Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Air Force Special Operations Command jointly disclosed that they had carried out between January and February several test drops of…
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