WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI today announced the unveiling of X-BAT, an AI-piloted, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet designed for expeditionary and maritime ...

It seems like autonomous aircraft makers are indulging in a bit of oneupsmanship as Shield AI rolls out its X-BAT VTOL Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that combines the ability to land and take ...

Introducing X-BAT, the world’s first AI-piloted VTOL fighter jet. With vertical takeoff and landing, long range, and full autonomy, X-BAT delivers combat power anywhere, anytime. This is the future of ...

An artist's rendering of the X-BAT that Shield AI is developing to be a runway-independent unmanned VTOL strike jet. (Shield AI) US company Shield AI is developing an unmanned vertical take-off and ...

Ace Combat in real life? This folding VTOL foam aircraft gives you a first-person view from inside a tiny toy fighter jet ...

The Convair XF-Y Pogo was the world’s first true VTOL fighter aircraft to successfully take off vertically, transition to horizontal flight, and land on its tail. Developed for the US Navy during the ...

This lockheed concept jet can not only fly at Mach 2.2, but land vertically using 1950s engine technology. It would have been able to fly longer ranges, intercept enemy bombers and even deliver an ...

Boeing’s Collaborative Combat Rotorcraft (CCR) is one adaptation of Boeing’s Collaborative Transformational Rotorcraft (CxR) – a modular, unmanned, multi-mission autonomous tiltrotor concept. Boeing ...

What just happened? Remember the AI-controlled jet that the US Air Force successfully tested in a dogfight last year? The same AI pilot responsible for that feat has just debuted in a fully autonomous ...

HopFlyt has built and flown two 10-ft. wingspan prototypes. Credit: HopFlyt Developed in the 1940s by American inventor William Ray Custer, the channel wing aircraft features a main wing with a ...