According to Fox News on December 30, 2023, the mainstream society's focus on artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 has enabled teams to more openly discuss some of the amazing moves they have taken in their race to future wars.
According to the report, AI presents a completely different challenge and reveals an arms race that many people didn't even know had begun: advanced and automated target-locking capabilities, testing virtual environments and AI-controlled vehicles, and more, are just the tip of the iceberg of the massive and rapid development of AI technology in the military field.
The appeal of AI technology is so great that the Pentagon is working on more than 800 AI-related unclassified projects to achieve "force multiplication" integration and gain an upper hand over the competition. Here are some of the highlights and most interesting takeaways about AI technology on the battlefield.
Automatically lock on to the target.
One of the most impressive applications of AI technology is emerging in Israel. Shortly before the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the IDF was equipped with an AI-powered Barak tank that provides operators with a 360-degree view of the battlefield.
An animation** showing the potential of this tank shows that an IDF operator is able to identify targets in front of and behind the tank, thanks to a specially designed helmet that helps the operator filter battlefield data. The tank can also dock "seamlessly", passing information to another tank nearby, which can immediately respond to the data and identify the target.
* Test virtual environments.
Germany's biggest advance in the development of AI military technology is not well known, but it has captured the imagination of testers everywhere: Berlin has introduced a **test virtual reality environment** that can be tested faster and more widely than in a conventional environment.
Blackjack Strategies, the developer of this virtual reality environment, wrote in a document on the "ghost game" project: "By simulating complex military battle scenarios, it is possible to develop novel and superior courses of action, which enable flexibility and superiority at the strategic, tactical and operational levels." ”
Yvonne Hofstedtle, CEO of Blackjack Strategies, said that a key aspect of the program's differentiation is the use of a "third wave" algorithm, which allows the simulation unit to make more "human-like" decisions.
According to Hofstedtle, the platform also seeks to rebuild the environment "trickle-down", and "ghost games" do this by bringing together a repository of all the data from the satellites about houses, vegetation, and so on.
UAV swarm control.
In June 2023, the Australian-British-US alliance held a military exercise that included the deployment of an AI-controlled drone swarm. According to a press release issued by the United Kingdom**, the drones detected and tracked military targets "in a representative environment in real time."
The Pentagon said it seeks to develop a fleet of AI drones to be deployed on land, sea and air to compete with China. China is also actively developing AI-powered drones.
Retired Brigadier General Uri Engelhard, an AI and cyber expert at the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told Fox News Digital Network: "The most obvious advantage of AI-controlled drone swarms is that if well programmed beforehand, they can perform their tasks very well without the need for remote control." ”
*Future. Israel has been at the forefront of the development and integration of AI technology, and the use of AI-equipped systems is not only able to quickly identify battlefield targets, but also to ** where the target is likely to be, creating an almost incredible combat capability.
Uri Engelhard explains: "The essence of digital transformation is this organizational change. We are not here to replace personnel, but to improve and increase combat effectiveness. There is a limit to what you can handle as a human being. ”
According to Israel's Jerusalem Post, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced in February 2023 that the IDF had begun using AI technology in its combat operations, saying that in a 10-day operation in 2021, new digital technology helped identify "200 new targets" and successfully targeted at least two Hamas commanders. (Compiled by Shen Jian).