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 ability to organically close its own kill chains without reliance on third party assets,” bragged ShieldAI executive Armor Harris, adding that it can carry “the full arsenal of air-to-air, surface strike, [and] air-to-ground weapons.” The goal, in Harris’s view, is to create ...
