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X-BAT aircraft can take off without runways. GE just proved its engine works

Shield AI's X-BAT vertical takeoff fighter clears a key engine milestone as GE Aerospace completes AVEN thrust-vectoring ...
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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 ...
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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 ...

A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff

The X-Bat is the first AI-piloted supersonic jet with the ability to take off and land vertically without a runway.
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Poland weighs joining X-BAT autonomous vertical-takeoff fighter program

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Delegates mingle around a 45% scale model of Shield AI's X-BAT combat drone at the Eurosatory defense exhibition near Paris on ...