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...
