Boeing’s F-15EX with ‘digital backbone’ completes its first test flight

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Engadget

This week, Boeing’s F-15EX fighter jet successfully completed its first-ever test flight. It might look like the F-15 planes the Air Force has been flying for decades, but in a lot of ways, it’s a more modern fighter jet. It features fly-by-wire flig...

AI controlled a US military aircraft for the first time

Posted on 18/12/2020 by Engadget

As much as the US military relies on drones to bolster its aerial arsenal, it has still relied on human operators to guide its aircraft — until now. Air Force Assistant Secretary Dr. Will Roper has revealed to Popular Mechanics that AI controlled a U...

Army pauses recruiting on Twitch after First Amendment criticism

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The US Army has paused activity on its Twitch account after drawing criticism from First Amendment groups for banning a user who asked about war crimes during a livestream. The user, activist Jordan Uhl, subsequently wrote an article for The Nation c...

The US Air Force is preparing a human versus AI dogfight

Posted on 08/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The US Air Force has long been exploring the way artificial intelligence (AI) can assist in its operations — back in 2016 we saw combat AI beat some of the Air Force’s top tactical experts, for example. Now, researchers are working on an autonomous d...

X-37B space plane launches on its most ambitious mission to date

Posted on 17/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A day later than planned, the X-37B space plane has gone back into low Earth orbit for its sixth mission. The vehicle launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket on the morning of May 17th. It’s the first X-37B mission under the Space Force’s ove...

Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane heads back to orbit May 16th

Posted on 10/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The US Air Force's X-37B space plane is heading back to Low Earth Orbit after a record-breaking fifth mission last year. It’s scheduled to launch on May 16th from Cape Canaveral in Florida, and while it still belongs to the Air Force, the newly forme...

US Space Force logo unveiled with a clear Star Trek influence

Posted on 24/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The president has been pushing to create a new military branch, dubbed Space Force, since 2018 and today tweeted out a logo for the department. The most noticeable part of the logo is right in the center, where a design that closely resembles Star Tr...

Nearly the whole US military has banned TikTok

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

When the Army, Marines and Navy all put the kibosh on TikTok, you knew it was just a matter of time before other US military branches followed suit -- and sure enough, they have. The Air Force and Coast Guard have confirmed to the Wall Street Journa...

Air Force’s X-37B space plane lands after record 780 days in orbit

Posted on 27/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

There was no doubt that the US Air Force's X-37B was going to break its own record for time spent in orbit, but it's now clear by how much. The mysterious Boeing-made space plane has landed at Kennedy Space Center after 780 days in orbit, comfortabl...

The Trump Administration just revived the Cold War-era Space Command

Posted on 29/08/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Today, President Trump and Vice President Pence announced the return of the US Space Command -- a Cold War-era division of the Air Force that's been on a 17-year hiatus. The revival of the US Space Command is meant to "ensure the protection of Americ...

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