As the Air Force eyes hundreds if not thousands of unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft to supplement its manned fighter fleet, startup Anduril offered a rare glimpse at the kind of autonomy software that could undergird CCAs—one human providing relatively simple directions for multiple “robotic wingmen” ...
In an exercise focused on Agile Combat Employment earlier this year, the Air Force got a taste of technology that could prove pivotal to the concept—autonomous software and hardware that can let conventional aircraft taxi, take off, fly, and land without a pilot at the ...