AI controlled warbirds!

Straight reporting from Tablet in Israel. Amazing! and Scary!

→ At a Kentucky army base this past weekend, officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the military’s R&D arm, oversaw the first-ever autonomous flight of a Black Hawk helicopter, marking a new era in military weapons operations. The helicopter’s 30-minute flight without a human pilot on board included traversing a simulated obstacle run through a landscape designed like downtown New York City, with “the aircraft [avoiding] potential buildings in real time,” Igor Cherepinsky, a member of the project team, told reporters after the flight. DARPA has scheduled additional testing of the automated helicopters later this year, with plans to pass the technology to the Army by September. DARPA officials also said the Air Force is investigating the potential application of the technology for its F-16 aircraft in the battlefield.