The future of aerial warfare might be missing one key component – the pilot. FOX Business was exclusively invited to Northrop Grumman’s unveiling of its next-gen autonomous fighter, named "Project ...
At a swanky Tuesday night event in Washington, DC, defense tech start-up ShieldAI announced what it describes as the world’s “first autonomous fighter jet.” The stealth plane, known as the X-BAT, “has ...
The US Navy (USN) has issued a preliminary set of contracts to develop an uncrewed fighter jet capable of operating from the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers. While the US Air Force has been ...
Shield AI, the American start-up best known for its autonomy software, is progressing through testing of its new uncrewed tactical aircraft. The company in October 2025 unveiled the autonomous jet, ...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon, an RTX (RTX) (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today that it has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to equip the autonomous X-62A ...
Air combat is becoming increasingly complex as threats multiply and reaction times shrink. Pilots are expected to manage ...
What just happened? Remember the AI-controlled jet that the US Air Force successfully tested in a dogfight last year? The same AI pilot responsible for that feat has just debuted in a fully autonomous ...
SkyDefense LLC’s CobraJet represents a watershed moment in military innovation—blending AI, eVTOL, and low-cost design to transform warfare from manpower-intensive to machine-dominant. In an era where ...
General Atomics demonstrated the autonomous execution of a mission with various mission objectives using an MQ-20 drone. A jet was also intercepted during this.