U.S. Navy has added new funding for Shield AI’s X-BAT autonomous aircraft program.
The funding has reached a reported $400 million, following a major new agreement with the U.S. Navy. The latest arrangement includes $150 million from government , matched by an additional $150 million in private capital from Shield AI. This builds on a previously announced $100 million combined investment in August, underscoring growing public- and private-sector support for the development of this next-generation autonomous combat aircraft.
X-BAT is one of the most interesting and ambitious concept , let’s dig deeper into it.
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00:11 INTRODUCTION
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01:31 XBAT OVERVIEW
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07:15 ANALYSIS
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At least it's not a vulnerable runway drone fighter that get taken out on the first strike 😮
No pictures of the new X BAT airframe? It's gone from a cranked kite wing shape to an arrow head shape. Shield AI released pics of it a few months ago.
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Can it stop Iran from shooting oil tankers? If not then it's a waste of money.
The F110 engine is going to require a lot of fuel onboard simply for VTOL take off and landing. That fuel is heavy. Every pound of fuel is one less pound of payload.
So this will be a very short range/short endurance armed platform, or a mid range unarmed platform. There simply isn't enough internal capacity to do both.
Imagine loading a few X-Bats on the Saronic Maurader ship that has around 5,000 Nautical miles of range.
If almost every U.S. Naval Ships has atleast a few of these on board? Trouble for everyone!
China already has one made out of rubber bands toilet paper tubes duct tape
Hope Xbat works out. Its an absolute game changer for sure.
The beginning of of the end, one day a nuke will be sent or dropped.
It’s over.
if you mean LHD or LHA 60 is game changing and gives them a very very long arm
This will be great for Taiwan
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I hope so! That's a sweet design. One's mind wonders on what all it could do.
Potential for X-BAT functioning on Wasp and America-class as collaborative with F-35Bs.
As mentioned, 60 of them can theoretically be stored and operated on America-class it is claimed.
Even just 30 would be excellent.
Japan controls hundreds of remote islands that would be excellent X-BAT locations.
Philippines too.
Tinian would be a very strong location.
Anti-ship potential is huge.
Well done.
If this is the same fear mongering company that's part of the AI scare that might possibly one day take over the world, I'd cancel everything associated with this company, screw you. But I'm not previe to the inside works of the scare tactics being thrown around,but if this is one of the companies ,not a dime in any military acquisitions.
There are plans for co-production in Greece for the Hellenic armed forces
A MoU has been signed with ΓΕΚ ΤERNA…. It's considered perfect for the Aegian Archipelago and Eastern Mediteranian environment