Military aviation will not remain aloof from the unprecedented pace of technology development. According to experts, in the current century, armed struggle will be radically different from the ways and methods of warfare of the past. Artificial intelligence technologies will be introduced into manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.
A team of authors from the National Research Center "N. E. Zhukovsky Institute" writes about this in the magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland". They note that it is difficult for artificial intelligence to compete with humans, but when solving problems of object detection and recognition, it surpasses the capabilities of its creators. The introduction of artificial intelligence technologies can bring three main advantages: working with a large amount of data, high speed of information processing and autonomy of actions.
And it may so happen that it will be possible to exclude the pilot from the process, when the decision must be made as soon as possible, and the system does not have even a fraction of seconds to consult with a person. In battle, the one who makes the decision and reacts faster will win. And there are no equal machines here. Artificial intelligence will allow you to more accurately determine goals without human intervention, give out options and scenarios for subsequent actions, flexibly respond to a changing situation in real time.
The authors of the article note that the further development of combat aviation complexes with unmanned aerial vehicles will undergo a transition from single use to collective actions with a high level of interaction, independence, and autonomy of decision-making. The management system of such groups should have artificial intelligence, means of conducting complex calculations. To achieve such a result, it is necessary to create promising intelligent aviation systems and software for them, as well as "teach" them everything they need.
Successes in the field of artificial intelligence will ensure leadership in the world of the XXI century, the authors of the article are sure. At the moment, in their opinion, all the technological prerequisites have already been created for the development of intelligent aviation systems capable of bringing the entire weapons system to a new level.
Svetlana Tsygankova