Avionics International

Shield AI, GE Integrate Advanced Vectoring Nozzle For X-BAT Engine

Shield AI and GE Aerospace on Monday said they have completed integration of an advanced vectoring exhaust nozzle, including actuation and engine light-off testing, into the engine that will power the ...
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A new AI fighter jet could take off from a parking lot instead of a runway

The next fighter jet may not need a runway. Shield AI and GE Aerospace have completed a critical propulsion test for X-BAT, an autonomous strike aircraft built to take off and land vertically. The ...
autoevolution

Crewless Fighter Jet That Can Take Off Vertically Uses Thrust Vectoring Tech Developed in the 1990s

American defense company Shield AI tested the Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) tech for the X-Bat combat drone ...
The Next Web

This AI-piloted fighter jet takes off with no runway. It just cleared a key test.

A fighter jet that needs no runway is a step closer to flight. Shield AI and GE Aerospace say they have completed engine light-off testing for the X-BAT. It is an AI-piloted strike aircraft, built to ...
Aviation Week Network

ShieldAI Progresses On X‑BAT Build, Tests Amid Europe Push

The company has three X-BAT fuselages in build, with three engines and two nozzles, Hawkes says. The second nozzle is a hybrid of old and new parts, he says. To take off vertically, the X-BAT would ...
The Aviationist

F-16’s AVEN Thrust Vectoring Nozzle Integrated with X-BAT’s F110-GE-129 Engine

In a critical milestone towards the first flight later this year, Shield AI and GE Aerospace integrated the X-BAT with the ...
Interesting Engineering

GE completes key engine test for X-BAT aircraft that takes off without runways

GE Aerospace and Shield AI have completed a key propulsion test that moves the X-BAT vertical takeoff strike aircraft closer ...
Aviation Week Network

X-Bat Program Completes Thrust Vectoring Integration And Test

Shield AI developed the X-Bat uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), powered by the GE Aerospace F110-129E engine, which utilizes thrust vectoring for vertical takeoff and recovery from a mobile docking ...

How The F-22's F119 Engine Solved 3 Problems The Industry Called Mutually Exclusive

The F119 was a marvel of engineering that made the F22 Raptor possible, although the USAF is now looking beyond it with ...

Same Soviet DNA, different fighters: How India's Su-30MKI compares with China's J-16

India's Su-30MKI and China's J-16 may fly under different flags today, but both trace their origins to the same Soviet-era ...
techtimes

Orienspace Readies Gravity-1 for First Commercial Satellite Cluster Launch

China's Orienspace is counting down to the third flight of Gravity-1 — the world's largest all-solid orbital launch vehicle — targeting no earlier than Sunday, July 12, from a floating barge in the ...
IEEE

Integrating Torque Vectoring and Active Suspension Systems Using a Game Theory-Based Control Framework

Abstract: The modular chassis architecture of distributed drive electric vehicles (DDEVs) provides flexibility for integrating more electrical control units. To address the challenge of enhancing ...