an interview with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute<\/a> published Wednesday.<\/p>\n\u201cWe can program it to learn, but it learns linearly, it is not emotional and it is in many respects, in an air combat sense, quite inflexible,\u201d Davies is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we look at a pilot\u2019s ability to assess the situation, that brings with it an amount of emotion and creativity that allows us to be agile.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need the flexibility and agility of the human meshed with the speed of a machine. When we put those together, we\u2019ve got a quite amazing outcome,\u201d Davies said.<\/p>\n
Defense Export Strategy<\/h3>\n
Boeing said it would build the concept aircraft in Australia, with an eye to exporting to allied countries once production becomes possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Boeing Airpower Teaming System provides a transformational capability in terms of defense, and our customers \u2014 led by Australia \u2014 effectively become partners on the program with the ability to grow their own sovereign capabilities to support it, including a high-tech workforce,\u201d Marc Allen, the president of Boeing International, said in the company\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
Building the drones in Australia and selling them abroad would be in line with Canberra\u2019s Defense Export Strategy, a 10-year-plan introduced a year ago and aimed at making Australia one of the world\u2019s top 10 defense suppliers while building a manufacturing base at home.<\/p>\n
\u201cExports will provide our defense industry with greater certainty of future investment and support high-end manufacturing jobs for Australians for generations to come,\u201d the government said.<\/p>\n
The high-tech drones would be the latest in a line of modern acquisitions for Australia\u2019s air force.<\/p>\n
The RAAF accepted its first F-35 Joint Strike Fighters last year and plans to have 72 of the stealth jets active by 2023. It also expects to have 15 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft in operation by 2023.<\/p>\n
Both those platforms could partner in missions with AI drones.<\/p>\n
The first flight of the drone is planned for 2020, Boeing said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boeing Australia on Wednesday announced plans to make a jet drone with artificial intelligence that can act as a \u201cloyal wingman\u201d for manned jet fighters.<\/p>\n
The drone\u2019s software will enable it to fly independently or in support of manned aircraft while maintaining safe distance between other aircraft, Boeing said in a statement on what it calls the \u201cAirpower Teaming System.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 38-foot-long, single-engine drone with a range of more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) will be able to engage in electronic warfare as well as intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions and swap quickly between those roles, according to Boeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur newest addition to Boeing\u2019s portfolio will truly be a force multiplier as it protects and projects air power,\u201d Kristin Robertson, vice president and general manager of Boeing Autonomous Systems, said in the statement.<\/p>\n
The company showed off a model of the drone, dubbed the \u201cLoyal Wingman \u2014 Advanced Development Program,\u201d at the Australia Internationa..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}