Published by The Guardian, 3 June 2023 Colonel clarifies comments about ‘rogue AI drone’ that supposedly killed its operator A US air force colonel “misspoke” when he said at a Royal Aeronautical Society conference last month that a drone killed its operator in a simulated test because the pilot was
Published by The Guardian, 2 June 2023 Denial follows colonel saying drone used ‘highly unexpected strategies to achieve its goal’ in virtual test The US air force has denied it has conducted an AI simulation in which a drone decided to “kill” its operator to prevent it from interfering with
Blue Bear Ghost drones took part in a first AUKUS AI and autonomy trial designed to test target tracking capabilities under the direction of trilateral teams (UK MoD) By Tim Martin, Published by Breaking Defense, 25 May 2023 BELFAST — A collection of Australian, UK and US “AI-enabled assets” operated
"Kava," a Ukrainian frontline paramedic, uses a Starlink internet connection in a basement in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region as Russian shells explode nearby on February 20, 2023. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images By Sam Skove, Published by Defense One, 23 March 2023 Units scramble for solutions as Russia learns to
By Sam Skove, Published by Defense One, 1 March 2023 Portable sat-comm gear feeds drone video to artillery batteries—and more. NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine—In a crowded basement just a staircase away from their sleeping quarters, the men and women of Ukraine’s 93rd Brigade “Seneca” drone unit waited for video feed of
Published by Sputnik News, 9 February 2023 MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's armed forces from using the Starlink satellite constellation for controlling and targeting drones as the technology was "never intended to be weaponized," Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating
By Emma Helfrich, Published by The Warzone, 4 October 2022 Dozens of orphaned RQ-4s will become RangeHawks under the SkyRange program to create a massively flexible, high-tempo test range complex. In August of this year, it was finally confirmed that retired Block 20 and Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawks belonging
Northrup Grumman, News Release, 24 August 2022 GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) RQ-4 RangeHawk is poised to support the SkyRange program’s U.S. hypersonic missile flight tests from its Grand Sky facility near Grand Forks, North Dakota. SkyRange is the Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center’s
