Boeing's Loyal Wingman completes first test flight 

"Loyal Wingman" is a much friendlier name than "AI Hunter Killer"

Ace combat fans: it's all coming together

Good to know SKYNET is progressing nicely

"Loyal wingman" Translation: *"Autonomous aerial Killing Machine"*

2:15 "The Royal Air Force signed..." Nah, the British aren't involved in this one. It's the Royal Australian Air Force.*

I see this as the way of the future for the Royal Australia Airforce with its small size that could be doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled in size, and with its interchangeable nose could cover many different roles.

Not to worry. The AI has the utmost enthusiasm for the mission Dave.

Ah, Boeing must have watched Stealth recently.

Uh, Erusea wants their drone back.

$115M for 3??!!! Holy cow that's cheap. (relatively speaking)

I dont think other people think like this... but I think its SOOOOO PRETTTTYYYYY

I need one of these for pub crawls

Wow! talk about a perfect centerline touchdown.

This was long overdue. Hats off to all those involved. Love Australia.

The tail design reminds me of the YF-23 and that's a good thing.

Let’s get this right: this is an Australian project, built by Boeing Australia and with some American input. The project is part of Jericho, which is a part of the Royal Australian Air Force and not the Royal Air Force, which is a British institution. As far as I know, the RAF has nothing to do with it. The project is an AI-based system which is designed to operate _with_ humans and not solely under human control. In other words, the drone has a certain amount of autonomy. The first flight took place on 21 February, 2021.

Australia is going to love these

In other news, the Chinese have announced the development of their new autonomous wingman aircraft- and ironically, it looks a lot like this thing

What an incredible piece of engineering! Please keep us updated on this marvel of engineering!

I was thinking of this myself. Long ago. Since the movie with that talking autonomous jet that turned on the makers and then joined forces with the pilot and got blown up in the end. That is what I envisioned. Unfortunately, I'm not at a level to pursue the development of these things myself. It is awesome to see this emerge finally. A lot of these previously scifi like projects are actually making their debut.

That livery looks very similar to Mihaly's. And this shot 0:56, its like coming straight out of ACE combat I love it.

Beautiful plane!

Is this the beginning of Eddy from Stealth 2005 movie🤔

Really important piece of tech for Australia too. Massive place, small population. This is a necessity in every form.

That is one Sleek looking A/C .... would make a Nice model for my collection, ( when I start building planes again ). But, I must say that drone tech has been around for some time, on-the-other hand....to build something So Quickly from Australia, Way-to-Go!! I will be watching with Great Interest.

That is super impressive technology and a very beautiful design. It's also scary AF. At this point I'm thinking Frank Herbert grossly underestimated the timing of "Butlerian Jihad".

good to know high-paying high-skill jobs are in the AI's Targeting sites.

On a more serious note. I can see something like this being paired with AWACS. So long as these drones can refuel in mid air. having a few of these drones, AWACS and an RC-1 can provide a whole manner of operations so long as they are kitted out and have the munitions for it. AWACS will have more to do apart from sitting around and eating pizza all day.

Thunderbirds no II... Beautiful design.

I was onboard the USS George H. W. Bush when the Boeing X47-B launched and trapped for the very first time. I actually filmed the launch from the superstructure. Very cool tech. I am out of the Navy now, but that was memorable. I created a video for youtube, but ended up having to remove it since it had copyright music in it.

And a beautiful looking aircraft

Australia actually has a history of designing and building military drone jets - check the Jindivik.

The movie "Stealth" comes to mind...

Is it going to be able to lunched from cargo crates Just in case

It looks so fantastic

The project may of started 3 years ago. But all the technology needed to make it possible. Has been invested and developed over Decades in Australia. Avionics, GIS GNSS, Radio Communications, Composites and local PetroChemical Industry and Imaging AV Equipment. These are areas of expertise and a talent Hub here. E.g. Black Magic Design (AV Cameras), Carbon Revolution Geelong (Composites), Radio Communication (freaking WiFi), ESRI Australia (GIS). These are the consumer public facing results of these developments.

Could you do a comparison video of the BATS with the kratos KQ-58A valkyrie and maybe the russian sukhoi s-70 okhotnik-B and any other similar classed Vehicles?? that would be super cool, I love the look of the BATS but the valkyrie looks the coolest

Looks solid, never seen that model

Does it comes with deployable from a cargo container?

Landing on its own..!! Wow..!! That's amazing..!!

Macross Plus and F's Ghost Drones come to mind.

Imagine hopping into a time machine with this and using it during WWI and WWII.

How do the nose modules differ?

I wonder if it has to fly a set path or if it can be told to follow a certain plane to complete a task. And that if necessary, it can be taken over my Humans to return home/sought out issues

This didn’t start 3 years ago, Boeing in St Louis has been working on these for well over 10 years, and test flying variants for at least 10 years

Other examples like such a drone, seems pretty cool

This is the future of all fighter aircraft. The amount of weight required to support pilots is significant and the number of G's a pilot can take limits maneuverability. For instance a pilot of an F-16 can take 9 +/- Gs, where the airframe can take well over 20 Gs.

Now the pilot can shout "Funnel!" And Sawano's bgm start to play.

Considering the about of software system failures Boeing has been encountering in recent times, I find this to be a miracle that this craft even took off.

"a world without borders"

is this the same as xq58?

What's up with the halo effect around it in the test flight footage?

The secretive AI control being developed by the Australians is the key to this.

Love ❤️ your video from Oz

Looks beautiful. Make that in to a fighter jet will be more beautiful.

2:24 The 'Royal Air force' (RAF) is British, The 'Royal Australian Air force' (RAAF) is, as the name implies Australian.

I need a wingman like that

Apparently they had to fly them in the morning before it got to hot as they don’t like the heat in Woomera.

im going to make a copycat RC. not from scratch but closed enough on scale its going to be awesome.

NB: the SR-71 ALSO sported the Nose-Swap option - some fifty years ago ;)

What? The guy was using a cordless Ryobi drill to assemble military hardware? Also, this is not entirely new.

Just came up with an idea that make this drone vtol .. fan in each wings with blades that pivot.. somebody call darpa ineed a job

Thanks for the report on the current state of Skynet. I wonder when will the first T-800s will start production.

One day, a drone will successfully retract its landing gear. But not today.

Imagine flying besides it and be like: _"Hmm...that's a funny looking F-35, it doesn't even have a cockpit like how remembered it in the pictures"_

Needs a self destruct charge built in for when it goes wrong.

Why aren't the tailfins partly on bottom side, wouldn't that make it sleek while keeping the radar cross-section small?

What's "the most exciting thing I see in the world of drones"! I'd like to see the Milkman Delivery Drone! Having to go out just to buy a carton of milk is such a pain. If it could also deliver choccy digestives at the same time, then it's win win in my book...

Is this the same as the X-58 Valkyrie??

AI armed drone... “oh, I have a bad feeling about this”

I wonder if the aircraft and ones alike would promote sales of simulating video games for PCs as a surrounding effect.

No puedo dejar de pensar que es muy parecido al barracuda EADS de la Luftwaffe.

Can't wait for the RC full size kit.

very lovely technology Boeing and HAL are only companies who are working on these technology.

You can definitely see the X-32's blood in it, with that composite compound delta wing.

wow,,,amazing ...best aircraf

What was that movie called? AI drone wingman fighterjet..

does it have an internal weapons bay?

now we can get some even cooler blue angle performances... i mean loyal wingman performances

Who doesn't feel so ashamed about owning Ryobi anymore?

look sooo cool

So, next step is the arsenal bird?

The loyal wing man looks like the drone air refueler for the x47 b

Suddenly my shmup games become a reality with automated weapons assist 🤩

This aircraft would be the ultimate kamikaze, taking out aircraft, land or sea targets.

This is already a movie

Is it a coincidence that the very front of this thing looks like the Skynet aerial attack robots?!

Do they intend to create a carrier capable version?

why let the landing gear up?

Also being built in Northern Ireland

Actually, it is pretty simple. The only reason it is developing slowly is that they want to get every dollar they can out of an extended development time. Under wartime conditions and without the red tape they could have these effectively flying and fighting in 90 days.

Sick

SKYNET giving two thumbs up for this one.

Thunderbirds are GO!

Congo for 3m

I take it, it's called Wingman because it'll accompany fighter jets. It probably has high G-force capabilities. We already have drones, so this should be different.

"Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do..."

Battlebots 2021 is gonna be lit lol

South Australia, not Southern. Its actually pretty central.

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