23 March 2026
Britain's BBC reports on the recent Singapore Airshow—touted as Asia's most influential exhibition for aerospace and defense innovations—and finds that jets and tanks are increasingly becoming "second fiddles" to combat drones and other unmanned vehicles.
The report finds that even human-controlled drones may be irrelevent as AI drives more and more combat solutions, and can even operate when GPS and conventional communications are disrupted or jammed outright.
"Our products include software and hardware," says Brandon Tseng, cofounder of Shield AI. "Our hardware products are unmanned aircraft, and the enables you to build an AI pilot. An AI pilot is essentially self-driving technology for unmanned systems. In 2023, we did the first ever AI piloted F-16 versus human pilot F-16 flights. We feel that over the next five years you will see near every serious military in the world make a statement they are building towards a million drone army, a five-million drone army, a ten-million drone army. You need AI pilots that enable a single person to command thousands, or hundreds of thousands of drones."
The result is that evolving militaries will need to find ways to protect their countries against hostile forces using the same technology.
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