The win came about during the finale of the US military’s AlphaDogfight challenge, put on by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), in which big-name military contractors including Lockheed Martin competed for the crown.
The winning company, Heron Systems, emerged as a victor with its fighter jet AI by defeating a human fighter pilot — call-sign “Banger” — who was sitting inside a simulator wearing a VR headset five rounds to zero, as Defense One reports.
