{"id":75111,"date":"2023-03-06T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75111"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:47:49","slug":"ai-pilot-beats-human-in-aerial-dogfight-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ai-pilot-beats-human-in-aerial-dogfight-in-90-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pilot beats human in aerial dogfight in 90 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese military researchers conducted a one-on-one duel between an AI-controlled drone and a human-operated drone in real-world conditions. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3211976\/chinese-military-researchers-report-ai-pilot-beats-human-landmark-real-life-dogfight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">SCMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two small UAVs were involved in the aerial duel. One was controlled by artificial intelligence. Its core was based on Nvidia Jetson TX2 accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>The second drone was remotely piloted by an experienced pilot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the document, the AI-powered drone demonstrated \u201csuperior performance\u201d in close-range engagements. The AI drone also kept the opponent in a constant losing position.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, the autonomous UAV quickly dodged the controlled drone and got on the opponent&#8217;s tail.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment had to be terminated 90 seconds after it began.<\/p>\n<p>The project was led by Professor Huang Jun-tao of the People\u00147s Liberation Army Institute of Scientific Research. The agency develops and tests futuristic weapons technologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cAircraft with autonomous decision-making capabilities can fully surpass humans in reaction speed,\u201d the Huang article states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the researchers, making sharp turns does not require accounting for human frailties, including blood pooling in the brain from excessive gravitational force or concerns about injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThanks to its superior computing capabilities, it can forecast the course of the battle more accurately to seize the initiative in the confrontation,\u201d said Huang&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Researchers noted that getting AI into the sky is far more challenging than launching it on the ground. Limited computing resources can seriously reduce the performance of the AI pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, American engineers spoke of the first-ever 17-hour flight of a trainer-transport aircraft with AI at the controls.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?21\" data-telegram-post=\"forklogAI\/3618\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In February, the U.S. Army <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-army-to-deploy-facial-recognition-on-drones\">entered into a contract<\/a> with RealNetworks to equip small autonomous UAVs with a facial-recognition system.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, a video appeared on social media showing a Chinese drone <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/video-shows-armed-robotic-dog-deployed-by-drone-in-china\">carrying a four-legged robodog<\/a>, equipped with a mounting for bearing weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese military researchers conducted a one-on-one duel between an AI-controlled drone and a human-operated drone in real-world conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,133,1522],"class_list":["post-75111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75113,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75111\/revisions\/75113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}