The AI ​​left no chance for humans by excelling in a tough close-range battle. At the beginning of the war, the initiative was with the operator, but then everything changed.

How did the war go?

• By calculating the person’s movements, the neural network performed a deceptive maneuver, counterattack, and eventually took up position near the enemy drone.
• He tried to descend sharply to make the AI ​​lose control and crash to the ground, but the machine didn’t mind, hiding in an ambush and waiting for the pilot to lift the device back into the air.
• The operator then tried several other tactics with the same result.
• After nearly 90 seconds of unsuccessful attempts to seize the initiative, the trial was terminated.

The era of dogfights dominated by artificial intelligence is on the horizon. Autonomous decision-making aircraft can completely surpass a person in terms of reaction speed,
– Researchers in the Chinese journal Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica reported.

When performing sharp maneuvers, a machine, unlike a pilot, does not have to take into account biology, such as blood flow to the brain due to increased pressure, and other aspects of its own safety. And the advantage in computational speed allows AI to more accurately predict the development of the combat situation and seize the initiative.

According to the researchers, 25-40% of air battles will be conducted at close range due to the development of electronic tracking technologies in the future. Therefore, it is very important to study such war conflicts in practice.