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.
TOWARD DOOM45confidence 95/100
Why it moved the index
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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- R1Toward 45 · confidence 95
New March 2021 military autonomous-flight milestone absent from the durable corpus.
12 Aug 2026