ShieldAI president: Air Force doesn't need another manned fighter

By Vanessa Montalbano / August 8, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Unmanned fighter jets could be fielded "way" before the end of the decade, or the Air Force's planned timeline for operating Collaborative Combat Aircraft, Brandon Tseng, co-founder and president of ShieldAI, told Inside Defense . “There is no reason to have a manned aircraft to do these missions anymore. [Artificial intelligence] pilots, like what ShieldAI is building, are capable of executing these missions, they can be trained to them” today, he said in a recent interview. “In the next nine...

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