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November 12, 2024

 

An operational U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) driven ‘copilot’ from autonomous flight technology company Merlin is set to take to the skies next year. The forthcoming flight testing is an important new step down a path that could lead to pilot-optional KC-135s. This also comes at a time of growing uncertainty around the Air Force’s future aerial refueling plans amid serious broader concerns about how the service expects to pay for various top-priority modernization efforts. Read our complete analysis here.   -- Kyle Gunn The War Zone

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