Boeing Loyal Wingman completes its first autonomous flight
Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force completed the first flight of the pilotless Loyal Wingman combat aircraft, with a Boeing test pilot supervising from a ground station as the aircraft operated autonomously.
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A completed autonomous flight of a combat aircraft designed to team with crewed fighters materially advanced consequential military autonomy. Ground supervision and the prototype stage limit magnitude; Boeing, Australian Defence, and exact-time reporting support high confidence.
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Toward 45 · confidence 95
New March 2021 military autonomous-flight milestone absent from the durable corpus.
12 Aug 2026
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DoomBench assesses “Boeing Loyal Wingman completes its first autonomous flight” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 45 and confidence 95 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.
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DoomBench summarizes “Boeing Loyal Wingman completes its first autonomous flight” as follows: Boeing and the Royal Australian Air Force completed the first flight of the pilotless Loyal Wingman combat aircraft, with a Boeing test pilot...
https://www.doombench.com/news/boeing-loyal-wingman-completes-its-first-autonomous-flight-2021-03-02