General Dynamics X-62 VISTA
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- The General Dynamics X-62 VISTA is the latest update to one of the most unique experimental aircraft models in the world, with groundbreaking pieces of technology that make it capable of performing stunts no other aircraft of its kind can achieve.
Derived from the F-16 Fighting Falcon, its VISTA acronym comes from Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft. Although coupling the terms "In-flight" and "Simulator" may sound counterintuitive, this is one of the few aircraft in the world that can be configured to simulate being any other airplane in the world.
Its impressive simulation capabilities thus make it the ultimate pilot training instrument, as it can be programmed to behave as a massive B-52 heavy bomber or a nimble HAL Tejas light fighter.
Making the experimental aircraft even more revolutionary is its recent inclusion in the US Air Force Skyborg program, which seeks to explore possible military applications of sophisticated artificial intelligence systems for autonomous combat air vehicles.
Consequently, the X-62 VISTA has been dismantled to incorporate an advanced AI computer system, and it now single-handedly possesses more state-of-the-art aviation technology than some countries' entire air forces.
Furthermore, the aircraft is poised to become the world's first combat-capable pilotless aircraft, changing the way air warfare is fought forever…
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Although the design is now over 45 years old, with it's belly-arranged air intake and gorgeous lines, I still find the F-16's exceedingly modern in appearance, almost space-crafty looking.
The F-16 is to fighter jets what the 747 is to airliners: a thing of beauty.
That airframe will fly forever. It's the canopy. LOL
@@mrzorg Ikr!
It’s the most beautiful turbine engined fighter aircraft ever produced. The most beautiful bomber was the Vulcan.
One drawback of the design is debris ingestion on the intake on sub-optimal airstrips in real war scenarios. One reason why the F35 had an advantage over X-32.
I never thought this jet would morph into it's current configuration when I helped build it in the late '80s. There's already 2 jets in the museum at Dayton with my fingerprints on them (AFTI and the F-4G currently on display). Maybe this jet will be there before I leave this planet.
What a great and interesting career! I hope you get to see a whole lot more before you leave this earth. Thanks for your dedication and for sharing your story.
Was the Vista built in AF Plant 4? I know we have pictures of it flying at Carswell but I assumed it was built at AFP4 but upgraded to Vista later at Palmdale or something.
WHO-DEY!
DEFINITELY A GOOD LOOKING FIGHTER! POSSIBLY NEEDED IN A FEW FRONT LINE HOTSPOTS! THANKS!
@@Nurhaal Yes, VISTA was built at Fort Worth. It was assembled with no electrical wiring and minimum hydraulic and fuel plumbing. She was completed in the MOD hangar instead of the assembly line.
VISTA, hopefully not powered by Microsoft ;)
That would be Blue Sky Of Death then
That reboot in flight could be problematic.
Or Activision
Somewhere bill gates is crying
Nope it's probably powered by Skynet😐
I grew up on Air Force bases in the 60's and 70's and every one of your videos reminds me of hearing my first sonic boom over the base to the low fly bys and I thank you for all you do
In the 1960's to about 1974 we used to get rattled by an occasional sonic boom. On the farm we were outside a lot so we noticed them more than city types. I remember a couple strong ones that made the tools dance on the machine shed wall. I guess after the Vietnam war fizzed out there was less USAF over the north central US.
Amazing aircraft, and whatever they're letting us know about, is already 10-20 years out of date due to clearances and National security concerns. What it can ACTUALLY do NOW, is no doubt mind-blowing.
You are very right. The stuff they don't tell us about must be nuts.
Great video! Thanks! I remember being a test pilot in the mid 80's my favorite movies were the Iron eagle series of films. Dad brought home plenty of refrigerator boxes and tape for us to craft our aircraft with. F-16 and the huey helicopter were my favorite I blacked out the windows and taped a flashlight to the canopy and changed the instrument panel for my night fighting rolls in an a-6 (flight of the intruder.)
So the pilots will essentially have an R2 unit riding along with them !
LOL - this is precisely what I thought too.
But that was "...a long, long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away..." 😉
I was thinking more like a real life Yukikaze myself.
Oh great now we’ve got SkyNet going up all by itself. 😂
Skyborg = Skynet. Any questions?
Just means all humans die.
Just one, Did your mom drink when she was pregnant?
Sarah conner
Yes, has Stanislav Petrov been replaced by Skynetski yet ??
I ordered the Borg from star trek and you're delivering my skynet from the terminator movies..... I want a refund
In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug..
This is how we get Skynet.
yeah. its a start of the end of humanity
Same thoughts here
If you hand over something as devastating as war to an AI, you only have yourself to blame. If the AI's decide you are the problem, what are you going to do?
Just turn it off. Ez
Unplug it.
I AGREE BROTHER
Skynet wants to know your location...oh wait, it already does!
@@scotttill3847 Privacy has been an illusion since the late 90s.
Skyborg! what a great name!
Apparently Skynet was already taken
I believe it's a combination of skynet and the Borg from star trek
So informative...and a bit unnerving...but thanks none the less. Keep it up!
Absolutely a cool aircraft.. I need to model this one.
Topnotch as usual, Ever since Dark5 I've been glued to these videos when it was just music and text, Now the video's are world class and undoubtedly featured in military classrooms and I was in many of those.
That first minute intro was so powerful! The engineering behind this plane is baffling.
The skyborg segment sounded like the adds shown in arms shows.
Just the first few seconds was mind blowing. That jet pulled off a J-turn. Most people don't even know that move has maybe 3 or 4 jets on earth can pull that move off.
This Vista is much better than the Windows variety.
@Galileo7of9 Duh?
@@saurabhsrivastv I don't know I would go that far but... I would rather has Dos.
The F16, in any form, is an incredibly capable jet fighter and beautifully classic, yet modern designed aircraft!!
Long live the VIPER!
I would like to see at lest 6 Squadrons of these being used by Active Personnel in the USAF.
Good point: it's the ideal 'aggressor'.
One of the only Dark Skies vids I've seen where it doesn't end with the aircraft being chucked on the heap. So many of these prototype aircrafts stories seem to end with 'but was never put into service due to-' or 'was cancelled due to lack of funding and-' etc
Well, the thrust vectoring mod for the F-16 *_was_* never put into service. It was even REMOVED from the Vista F-16. He never mentioned it’s name:
AVEN.
"Want to play a game?", comes to mind.
It was cool to see a more recent plane that is still in operation today. Keep up the good work!
The us Air Force: well produce 5000!
The us air force 10 years after development: we have about 30
Awesome stuff
What would happen when AI Fighter is engaged by another AI fighter capable of messing with it's IFF and flight computer?
Good point, the more automated and electronic the more hackable
Battlestar Galactica
Diana P has the answer for you.
"I need your clothes, your boots, and your X-62 VISTA"
Thanks
Damn I LOVE these videos !
They're absolute RUclips perfection 👍
Well not quite . They are entertaining and informative but usually contain a lot of mistakes and irrelevant clips.
I agree
@@kelvinfoote9897 I'm a bit of an aviation fan and this channel craps on most other aviation tech channels for glaring mistakes !
Repetitive clips & wrong clips trigger me too though...
What can we expect next, its amazing these days what our brilliant engineers come up with..
Even better ways to kill each other.
Truly an amazing aircraft, along with its three other X planes
Okay, this all looks great, but what if an American AI aircraft starts communicating with a Russian, Chinese, European, or other AI aircraft, and they ask themselves, "Why are we destroying each other for these stupid humans?" Just asking.
They'd likely do what the Marxist did during the Great War and back their Nations anyways. Greatest secret of WWI is that it fractured the Socialist Parties into National and Internationals groupings, gave rise to National Socialism, and Fascism. Even within the Social Democratic Party of Germany alone the party split into three during the 1918/19 Revolution, that was already after the Pro Nationalist split.
@@Alte.Kameraden B&Rp
...or worse yet defects!
That's the main plot thread of Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Like the Christmas Truce during WWI?
Saying that the aircraft could "fly in reverse for a limited time" raises an amusing mental image of Major Wile. E. Coyote stomping on the brake pedal, throwing the gear lever into "R" and instantly zooming backwards into the side of a mountain or something.
I understand what the narrator meant; the aircraft could balance its mass against the vectored thrust of the engine and do a kind of "semi-hover", creeping forward or backward relative to a line on the ground. But the mental picture made me grin nonetheless. :)
On that point, the only aircraft that can genuinely "fly backward" in a normal horizontal attitude are rotorcraft and VTOL jets such as the Harrier or F-35B. Any conventional aircraft which is flying backwards is in a stall (from which the VISTA can presumably recover quite easily, as per other thrust-vectoring aircraft) and that tends to end badly.
You forgt the stable flying model airplanes that hav thrust reversing propellers. They happily balance on their nose but that's a full stall condition. Nitpicking, I know. Buuuut.
skyborg - the air wing of skynet
Imagine a droid socket in a fighter jet and everyone on earth starting in kindergarten would be required to learn droidspeak
Great Scott! Supersonic SpaceMan Spiff only no man. It'll take one crashing into a congressman's house before anybody in charge will even think that this might be a bad idea...
Could significantly affect near space activities as well.
50,000 ft ceiling.
@@lissaleggs4136 Was thinking of air launched satellites or interceptor missiles.
@@richardschmitz9576
Phoenix missile outdated.
@@lissaleggs4136 Certainly, but is the concept sound with improved tech? Would probably need a better launch platform as well.
And when the SkyBorg fleet gets big enough we'll need an AI to watch over and control the fleet. We could call this AI Skynet.
The military already has skynet
Guess nobody remembers BGS and the first cylon war. Or terminator
I'd never heard of this. Great video!
Just imagine the pilot needs a nap and just has to go "hey jet, take over flight controls and wake me up in 30"
The military has always followed sci-fi and I see they intend to continue doing so with the Vista. Same story, different platform?
It's like X-wing with R2-D2!!! 😉
An AI co-pilot? So we're talking an on-board R2D2, yeah? Amazing... and may the Force be with yew...!
I will always have (what I hope) is healthy skepticism for fully autonomous operation when it comes to war machines. There is zero doubt this will become commonplace in military and consumer products, but even though Humans be very fallible, putting any life form in the gun-sight of a fully AI machine does make me very nervous. 60/70's self-aware robots in SF novels are the source for this of course, but also ED-209 comes very much to mind.
people want SKYNET this is how you get SKYNET (Terminator)
this is how Skynet or Cybrids happen
Was just about to day the same. Lol 🤣
Great vid , this is all news to me ,as an aviation enthusiast of 60 years ! I can remember the model with the downwards-pointing canards .
A computer pilot could pull a lot more Gs than a human!
And kill all humans.
and? a missle can pull more gs than an aircraft
ALSO DOES NOT KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG LIKE MOST HUMANS EITHER
@@shauntemplar.26 Humans often don't even know it.
@@silent1967 "Kill all humans"?
I think we'll be okay until they built AI refuelling trucks, AI rearming crews and AI maintenance crews.
As both a guitarist and aviator, I find the application of amp modeling tech to aircraft intriguing.
Dear Dark Skies, Thank you once again for a well research and assembled piece. I wanted to spend a moment to discuss the future of Battlefield AI Tech. While the X-62 ( or some variant ) will be come formidable assets in combat air, to my mind AI will have its largest social imprint in its use in ground warfare. Current development by various private and government entities and DARPA will be combined and lead eventually to small AI Hunter-Killer systems small enough to bring to the battlefield ( approximately the size of a automobile or truck tire ) semi-hardened, with Audio and IR Sensory systems, limited flight capabilities, and armed. These can be sent out in small groups in seek and destroy missions that also forward intelligence back to the assault team and / or the wider battlefield command and control hierarchy. The adoption of armed AI Systems will be both an asset to the crew in the field and the stuff of nightmares.
Imagine an F-16, with an engine derived from the F-35 (which makes 43,000lbf thrust compared to the F-16's 29,000lbf thrust) with thrust vectoring....
So basically, F-16 with 33% more power and thrust vectoring. It's already a very fast, maneuverable plane... but with those upgrades, the plane would be insane.
This went from a really cool plane to ZOE from ace combat
Fighters without pilots=no fun at all.
Imagine a flight of 4 planes "flown" by two pilots. The lead plane is a 2 seater and the other 3 are "drones". Now you have 3x more weapons to use. And can use a drone as a "shield" to take a hit if fired on. It will save lives and cost less.
Terrible call signs too - no Goose or Maverick.
Call sign 0011011101010010011
I like how you frame the extermination of humanity as a neat thing about a special airplane.
How how how how do you get all this amazing info and footage year after year??
Thx for another fantastic video!
genuinely amazing.
by 1:13 im already thinking " if you can put spotify in this baby we can go all macross plus in my lifetime"
Now it has a name.
Scary thought...yes it would save allied lives (so long as those systems don't get hacked or go 'skynet' on us...) but having a 100% ai driven fighter craft with no human 'moral' decision is a scary thought. Nothing will replace human pilots, their insticts or their moral decisions, when you take the 'human' out of war, then you lose respect for it, and can end up losing more lives than you intended to save...
But yet, that is the path our betters have us on. When you remove the human factor from the equation, what risk is there to going to war. When you remove the cost, and reduce combat to a push button affair, nobody will give a second thought to bombing or killing someone. As long as it isnt in our "backyards", nobody will give 2 shites about it. And, as long as the ai doesnt become too smart and go all "Skynet", "WOPR", or "Cylon" on us, we might survive. If there is no human cost involved, then the endeavor means NOTHING. Be that warfare, or exploration.
Kamikaze japanese -AI response to question of who it respects, it's creators or its ancestors
Who would have thought they’d have something like this that’s crazy
Fuckin love that mad lad paint job
It's about time for the services to admit that the weak point in any combat aircraft is now the human. Eliminating the pilots and their support systems will allow these aircraft to operate to the maximum of their capabilities. You should do a video on the Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology). and also the Navy Northrop Grumman X-47B.
i not seen this one beforr ! arent us aircraft programs just ~ totally exotica ~
I know not many people watched it lol, but does nobody remember the movie "Stealth"!?!?!???!?!!! Lets not fuck around with autonomous weapons of war please
I recently played Horizon: Zero Dawn, its lore is based on earth being destroyed by AI weaponry that went rogue. We should definitely not be fucking about with it.
Could you imagine a fighter drone pulling 20g’s? Make it look like one of those crazy anime planes or something…
Would be cool. but she's a big Bird ... the wings would bend or fall off at 20g from the dry engine weight. Remember aerodynamic load is often offset by wing pylon/storage configuration (see the way fuel is used to counter wing bending in new heavies).
I like the colors..
It will replace us all.
- Capt. Dick Marshfield
Wow. An F16 that can cobra? Amazing.
And AI so no human g limits. Probably 12g or more instead of 9g.
Always could technically
Outstanding topic and writing. Thank you for this one.
Vista is assisting with the "Loyal Wingman" project for the RAAF. The USAF is interested in the project too, but have not committed to the funding to date.
The Flight Test School at Edwards Air Force Base has been changed to Armstrong Flight Test School, named after Neil Armstrong.
I spent the 80's and early 90's at Edwards Air Force Base.
I did not know that. A most suitable name to use
Nice recovery Maverick 👍
Holy SHIT that jet at the start of the video, just pulled of a dame J-turn. There are maybe 3 jets on earth that can even try and pull that maneuver off.
Dude, did it just STOP in mid-air?
VTOL
yes.. it did and both pilots still in seats if you look close enough.. NO AI needed there
@Tim Runion
Someone knocked the plug out.
I like this strong fighter to have it
the apex of human ingenuity
Well that was legitimately frightening.
Thanks from Texas Dark Dude
You want Terminators?
'Cause THAT'S how you get Terminators !
I would love to take one up, even if just as a passenger. I'll take two of them!
So they are giving pilots R2D2s. Neat!
They Dale Brown’d an F-16, nice.
Good work. Thank you.
There are literally several movies telling you why this could be a baaaaad idea.
I'll worry when they have AI refuelling trucks, AI rearming crews and AI maintenance crews.
You want a skynet? This is how you get a skynet!
As we move into hypersonics, AI is the only thing that will be able to react fast enough to be viable.
Very true. Also, if the aircraft is built to handle them, can exceed the G's which would incapacitate any human pilot.
@@MicrophonicFool some aircrafts we have now such as the F-18 and F-35B/C cant even exceed 7.5gs which is very well within a pilots range. But besides that, missiles are in the scope of hypersonic tech, not aircraft.
@@MicrophonicFool the limiting factor in the f16 is the pilot not the aircraft. As far as G is concerned.
@Nphekt and as a matter of fact there is new G-suit technology being developed to increase g tolerance/endurance.
@Nphekt Physiology has limits, even if techniques can help
I hope two of the test pilots are Isamu Dyson and Ghul Goa Bowman. Macross Plus!
"by 2030 unmanned fighters will fly with a perfect operational record. Creating a net in the sky"
Banger video keep itup
AI that's programmed to kill humans , autonomously ,kinda gives me an uneasy feeling. It seems like the plot of a terminator movie.
No
Too vulnerable to software compromise, sensor inputs being spoofed and confusing the AI, or out right being becoming electronically high jack.
You want Sky Net? This is how you get Sky Net.
For when you need to hone your climbing invisible stairs maneuver for future use in your B-52
That's insane!
Skyborg? More like SKYNET 😱
the MIG's of the 70's could do these maneuvers.
Now these maneuvers are what you expect fighters to do, especially in games like HAWX or Ace Combat 7. Seeing real planes do stuff like that is so cool.
Also, AI fighters taking over the reigns of aerial combat? coughAceCombatcough. Seriously, just look at AC7 and tell me that’s not where we’re headed! Now all we gotta do is wait for two ADF-11F Ravens named Hugin and Munin and we’re officially Osea in Strangereal.
Whoever that can shoot down missiles/planes more efficient then the other ... WINS ..
Looking forward to the world of the Terminator becoming a reality.
Cool video!!
The potential in Air force boneyards is possibly of concern to foreign powers, you could double/triple the combat ready "pilots" if AI can be adapted for various old planes.
When you remove the pilot G forces are now what the engineering can withstand . That's a game changer
The remotely controlled Rockwell RPRV-870 HiMAT was designed to test out various concepts and didn't have a pilot to avoid killing one during its testing.
One of the things it was designed to do was to out turn an F-16 by having a turning radius only about half that of F-16.
It was capable of an 8G SUSTAINED turn about 25,000ft, and 6G below IIRC.
Its airframe could withstand +12G/-6G in subsonic flight, +10G/-5G supersonic flight in supersonic flight, with an ultimate structural limit of 18Gs.
This was all back in the late 1970s/early 1980s.