AI-Piloted Jet Completes Successful Test Flight in Move Toward Collaborative Combat Aircraft Development: US Air Force

The United States Air Force announced last week the successful test flight of its first-ever unmanned artificial intelligence-piloted jet.

In a press release published on Thursday, the Air Force Research Laboratory stated that the three-hour test flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie was a success. After two years of work, the flight occurred in late July at the Eglin Test and Training Complex in Florida.

The XQ-58A Valkyrie, developed by the AFRL, is “machine-learning trained” and operates using AI algorithms that “matured during millions of hours in high fidelity simulation events, sorties on the X-62 VISTA, Hardware-in-the-Loop events with the XQ-58A and ground test operations.”

Air Force AI Test and Operations Chief Col. Tucker Hamilton stated, “The mission proved out a multi-layer safety framework on an AI/ML-flown uncrewed aircraft and demonstrated an AI/ML agent solving a tactically relevant ‘challenge problem’ during airborne operations.”

“This sortie officially enables the ability to develop AI/ML agents that will execute modern air-to-air and air-to-surface skills that are immediately transferrable to other autonomy programs,” Hamilton added. (Read more from “AI-Piloted Jet Completes Successful Test Flight in Move Toward Collaborative Combat Aircraft Development: Us Air Force” HERE)

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