In future combat where GPS navigation options can be jammed or eliminated, AI could help aircraft fly by following Earth's magnetic fields.
At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a test bed for a new kind of air force, Major Trent McMullen is a fighter pilot learning to fly alongside the XQ-58, a drone piloted by artificial intelligence.
Board game pieces are placed during a wargame exercise at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Sept. 16, 2025. (Airman William Neal/U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Air Force is turning to artificial intelligence to ...
An F-35A assigned to the Alabama Air National Guard lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California. (Chase Kohler/U.S. Air Force) The Department of the Air Force seeks to lease thousands of acres of land ...
The U.S. Air Force is turning to artificial intelligence to boost its wargames. The Air Force wants a cloud-based, AI-powered "digital sandbox" as a hub to generate and run wargames at speeds of up 10 ...