Posted on 07/01/2021 10:44:41 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The US Air Force (USAF) has carried out the flight test of a Skyborg autonomy core system (ACS) on board a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Skyborg is focused on showcasing an open, modular ACS that can autonomously aviate, navigate, and communicate, and thereby, integrate other advanced capabilities.
The two-hour thirty-minute flight test was conducted during the Orange Flag 21-2 Large Force Test Event at Edwards airforce base (AFB) in California.
It was part of the Autonomous Attritable Aircraft Experimentation (AAAx) campaign line that aims to test and inform ACS development a sit furthers.
The test flight comes just two months after the ACS was first demonstrated onboard a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical UAV at Tyndall AFB in April.
By integrating the ACS on the MQ-20 Avenger UAV within two months after completing tests on the UTAP-22, the Skyborg team proved the modularity, portability, and scalability of the ACS on a completely different aircraft using the same software.
(Excerpt) Read more at airforce-technology.com ...
Binary is not choice but code😉
“There is a storm coming”
So it didn’t takeoff or land?
Skyborg? Seriously?
Adding “borg” to it doesn’t make me feel any better.
Looks like a remote control with wings.
ANYTHING built upon software is extremely vulnerable.
Well, “Sky-borg” makes sense for a name, since they intend to give us a choice of either termination or assimilation.
Has anyone seen ‘stealth” on HBO on direct tv? We ain’t that far from it.
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