Newscasts - AI-driven combat aid trialed for Eurofighter Typhoon
09/07/2025 11:19
Click the following link to watch video: https://share.newscasts.refinitiv.com/link?entryId=1_l7bk5bn5&referenceId=tag:reuters.com,2025:newsml_RW830308072025RP1_K15&pageId=Newscasts Source: 'Reuters - General news videos' Description: Europe's biggest defense company BAE Systems, which makes submarines and fighter jets and supplies munitions, is partnering with Swedish firm Avioniq to test an AI-driven decision making aid on the Eurofighter Typhoon, aiming to enhance pilot situational awareness in combat. Sean Hogan has more. Short Link: https://refini.tv/4nCfMjt Video Transcript: Could AI technology take this fighter jet to new heights? That's what BAE Systems and Swedish firm Avioniq are hoping. They've partnered to test an AI driven decision-making aid on board the Eurofighter Typhoon. The trials involve Avioniq's Rattlesnaq technology that provides advanced missile modeling to help pilots identify safe flight zones in hostile airspace and evade enemy missile ranges, says Avioniq's co-founder Mikael Grev. What it does is it calculates every possible missile or a weapon that the enemy fire can fire at you and keeps track of all of those. And it calculates a boundary that the pilot knows how far in each direction can the pilot fly without being been defeated by any of the possible missiles that the enemy have. The AI is verifiable, meaning it ensures every recommendation provided to pilots can be independently checked. We can always use just a normal simulation and verify that answer to a very high degree. So, we don't have to have any guesswork, does the AI work or not? We can just, you know, simulate the answer. The technology is being integrated into a Typhoon simulator, advancing pilot training and tactics for beyond-visual-range battles. BAE Systems Head of Typhoon Strategy Paul Smith. What that means in the real world, if our pilots are flying over a hostile, complex, congested environment, is that they can be far safer, be far more survivable, but also be more lethal. Avioniq says the system is already operational in some aircraft, but not fighter jets.