AI-Powered F-16 Takes On Human Pilot in Ultimate Dogfight 

9g wonder wing

The 9G limit is programmed. One F-16 airforce bypassed the limiter and pulled over 12 G's, and RTB. Another user pulled over 9 when crossing the transonic zone while pulling out of a dive. RTB was normal.

It's a top dogfighter, but short range, limited radar, and only having a single-engine keep it from being a great multi-role plane.

I find it funny how it was never meant to be a multi roll fighter, and became one of the best

@@AndyFromBeaverton google operation opera. The first A-G mission for the Viper. Complete success.

They literally predicted the future, to be fair this was inevitable, the only limitation an aircraft has is it's human meatbag pilot suffering from high G's. 🥲

You are so right.

Not predicted the future, but was in development in our past for the future. Everything we see today is product of technology development and sometimes may look like things predict the future We have had toy drones for many many years now and nobody thought the US government would do the same for their jets ? American government most likely perfected this many decades ago and now it’s just finally being released..

Literally just remembering the drone F18s of Eurusa. This is a concerning development 😅

LMAO 💀

This was said in the video

Computers are limited to their programming. Besides, you can’t jam or hack a pilot.

@@mikewaterfield3599 Hacking a FLYING F-16 or F-35 or any other high end jets.... is as good as winning the Lottery. Possible, highly unlikely. The US has been working on the F-16s on the various DARPA aerial activities for close to 2 decades now. Only now that that AI, programming, and super computation --- two/three sides of the same coin, if you will ---- are maturing to a point where complex programs are able to make self-correction and improvement without humans putting every small in-put by hand. If you asked CHATGPT or BARD/GEMINI to do calculus or chemistry, when they first came out, a lot of times, those programs churned out very wrong, nonsensical answers. Right now, after just 2 iterations, they are already very good. Math problems are easy to see why improvements could be done so quickly; but a lot of Chemistry problems, however, are haphazardly WORDED word problems, with only the most rudimentary numbers... and, yet, these programs could follow our non-concise VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS good enough to churn out perfectly good, fast answers! I was surprised when it could do chemistry problems, with molecular compounds written rather haphazardly in letters and numbers in very minimally standardize manners... Imagine how good they'd be in another 15 - 20 years, of constant improvement! Ditto for AI.

@@mikewaterfield3599 but you can kill a pilot.

Yes, and no. The structure has its limit as well and maintaining energy and speed is more important than pulling more Gs in today’s combat.

Yeah, it will break down, but better some wear and tear than dying to a missile. If these things include the 'fire from any angle' feature of the f35s it wont even need to pull high gs to get a lock, just for evasion.

The service life hours have doubled for the Viper. The F-15 suffered more structural failures.

So easily they forget... well said ! Some people can't wait to hand every moment of their boring lives to a machine I guess !

True, but with AI they don’t need constant training, so as a result the airframe sees less stress so that does a lot for the lifespan of the airframe

@ShawnHinck high G's aren't caused by human error. I think you missed the point of what I said and the comments in the video. And what you said is incorrect. Every aircraft has a life span based on flying hours. High G's, hard landings, saltwater and harsh impact those hours. Resulting in increased inspections from trained personnel. Regardless of who or what is flying it.

Then you really need to read the 2 books in the Yukikaze series, By Chohei Kambayashi..(supposedly now 3 books?).. Where our own most advanced AI computers, in fighting a war with a largely unknown & unseeable alien existence, known as the JAM, soon start to decide that humans & our humanity is an impediment, and after keeping secret from us that the JAM have been making entreaties & approaches to all the various human sides AI's, they (our AI's) start finding ways to ignore, circumvent, and eventually deceive us humans..and our intended strategic & military directives, and decietfully deciding that they ultimately have more in common with the JAM, (a non-comporeal entity, but with far superior awareness & quantum capabilities, including interdimentional travel) and the opening of interdimentional gates to other worlds & world/planet-like constructs of their own.. Which is how we first learned of them..when they open an interdimentional passageway in Antarctica, and their first known attack on humanity began..on the Mcmurdo base on the Ross ice shelf. It's also got a 5 disc anime cartoon series, by Bandai/Maddog, that while a lot thinner in plot than the original books, and cutting a lot of the deeper story out for the sake of action, (which leaves you to wonder a lot, if you only watch the anime first..as you don't get much backstory or history with the anime), and thus you'll be only getting a small part of the overall story, and a more localized experience within the world & the JAM war, from the point of view of Rai Fukai, pilot of SAF unit B-3 'Yukikazi' a new & highly sentient AI core fighter/recon aircraft called a super sylph.. Yukikaze was specially designed, specifically to be very sensitive to the JAM..to detect & recognise them, and all of their signatures, essence and their various constructs..and to evolve to further sentience & maturity as an AI, as it learns, in conjunction with their pilots and their shared wartime experiences..they grow & experience combat together..with the emphasis on that shared combat experience, and its value in improving human survival knowledge & awareness, in war with the JAM, and thus directing further human ideas, strategies, designs & war plans Our more normal AI intelligences, that sift, sort & analyze all the data to help detirmine much of these concerns, on return from each fighter's missions, and use it all to form a big picture of awareness, all sensor-fused & network centric warfare integrated into ever more advanced warfighting and survival strategies for use against the clearly far superior alien enemy, that just seems to be almost toying with humanity..while presenting it a costly 3 decades long fighting war between worlds..ours & theirs. Or so we thought..But I won't give much away here. No spoilers. Ultimately, Yuzikaze becomes far more sentient than was ever predicted or intended by her military industrial complex makers, though..and essentially becomes a new, composite lifeform..far less AI, and considerably more sentient, and Rai must learn to meld with her much closer than ever before, because the JAM have noticed the danger that Yukikaze poses, and that Rai himself now also trusting her as he now implicitly does, and has begun targeting them both directly, and are taking a decidedly dangerous interest in this new & complex pair of warfighting JAM hunters, learning to trust & meld with each other in ways ordinary people & humanity does not.. The AI all see this..the JAM see all this..and all on our side are fighting for self-survival..But not all equally..and they all have their own concerns. Where will our AI creations betray us? Will they all decide to equally? How much human complicity & treachery is involved..And will Yukikaze allow any of them to get away with it!? "..Yukikaze says, it's an enemy.."

Ironic, because all scientific and technological progress flows from the need to make war. Case in point, modern medicine exists because disease felled more soldiers than enemy action. If you enjoy any facet of modern prosperity, thank the military-industrial complex.

Munin and hugin

Yep, but with humanity, you lose wars.

At least it ends

Send them to Ukraine?

We were buying drones for the F-35. Why not have the F-35 and NGAD fly automated F-16’s alongside the drones?

@@techinrl9869 I would think they would make pretty good decoys to draw attention away from the stealth aircraft.

@@mikeharvey9184 Makes me wonder how good the AI is. It could probably shoot down whatever enemy pilot goes after it, making it more of an extra combat aircraft than a decoy. And it could probably spin and weave so well while ignoring G-forces that it could dodge missiles without chaff and flares.

@@techinrl9869 all the reasons you state are why I think it would be a good decoy… maybe “Crazy Weasel” could be the new term for it. Similar in principle to the Wild Weasel role, but bonus points that it could also draw the attention and engage enemy fighters.

Even the Raptor may have issues versus an X-62A considering it isn't a regular F-16D. It's been upgraded with a new engine with more power and 360° thrust vectoring paired with state of the art avionics allowing it to be flown by AI but also mimic the flight characteristics of any jet in the air (including the raptor). It's so unique that the raptor will never get an AI pilot, however the NGAD fighter in development that's slated to replace the F-22 most likely will.

Those results aren’t public, and if you know them, something tells me you wouldn’t be talking about it for the sake of your security clearance….. the 5 you’re talking about were in the sim not the real life trials.

It was published in an article I read. It was an anonymous source so take it with a grain of salt but it was in the real life trials. That's why I specified that both planes had no restrictions and there were only 5 of them.

Thats what i was trying to say

We will either create skynet, Cyclons, or Hal 9000, or maybe iRobot and V.I.K.I. I guess there is little difference. Humans are bent on self destruction.

Who says the US did not try it's hand at Hypersonic Missiles? You would be naive to believe that.

Pretty sure they’re doing the same. China’s AI just beat the cutting edge AI that we in the US currently have. Also, what they’re doing with hypersonic missiles, are objectively hypersonic.

@@Machiavelli2pc go watch habitual line crosser. He’s in the military and his job revolves around Patriot missiles and intercept missiles in general. There’s a huge leap in what they say it is and what it actually does. If you’re going to allow for “any missile that goes hypersonic for any amount of time” then America has had that since the 1940s. If your talking about the thing that would be the actual new and difficult thing to event of a missile that could maneuver at hypersonic speed then nobody has it. It’s cheaper and better to have a missile you can’t see coming then one you can that’s slightly harder to hit. As for them doing the same in ai … well they would have been using it for propaganda if they were even attempting to and failing to do so. The fact that we have this coming out from America after the testing phase is basically done means if it had to be we could probably put it to use on stealth jets … so we could be a generation ahead and a technological advantage above. The gap for those who aren’t America has widened massively from this

@@Machiavelli2pc You must be a Wu'''mao. China can't even make microchips that AI used how is china be''at American AI? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You can't let them get airborne and in their element.

Does it concern you that the humans at the top of the decision tree suffer human vices and make decisions directing the use of A.I. in support of or against others?

You would be a great ai programmer and developer

😂😂😂. What you mean Belka was involved? 😂😂😂

No Pwoblemo.

Which is part of the B21's sale actually as the first 6th generation. She can command drone swarms, is large enough to house a double flight crew, allowing fresh brains to always be at the helm to play QB

And now we're bringing back the F16Xl as the f36 Kingsnake (potentially)

Thank you Scott!

Sustained 13.5 g no pilot on Earth wants to fly against this thing

One. Million. Gees

12+ Gs.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very cool! If you can post the pics I’d love to see them!

@@PilotPhotog they are a long reach only identifiable. If you're on X or the like I'll get it transferred over.

@@JSFGuy yep I’m on X same handle as here: PilotPhotog

@@PilotPhotog Aight, I may have found and followed already. You will know when I post. Have to transfer the traditional way with the card plugged into the laptop.

@@JSFGuy all good man, thanks!

Agreed, but this is definitely a first step - not saying I want that to happen anytime soon, but this is certainly a historic moment. Thanks for commenting!

Real

@@JamesTaylor-tu6in... with Dr. Stephen Falken looking on as they figure that out.

Who would have thought?

A jet that can see 360 degrees all the time in most wavelengths inc radar range/visible light and also extremely pull high gs 's isn't getting knocked by a non ai stealth craft. It'll react very rapidly to those bvr missiles and save itself. It may not be able to take out the stealth planes but those stealth crafts won't be able to to stop it's penetration, only slow it down and it'll still hit it's ground targets

No, that is impractical because it relies on radio transmission to the aircraft, which would be prone to interference.