China is preparing for supersonic air attacks and carefully simulating combat conditions using hypersonic missiles.
Chinese scientists from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, using AI, were able to simulate an air battle in which supersonic fighters took part, writes Interesting Engineering.
The researchers simulated a combat encounter between a fighter jet reaching Mach 11 (meaning 11 times the speed of sound) and a Mach 1.3 aircraft that resembled the American F-35.
In standard air combat, fighter pilots usually attack each other head-on or try to “sit on the tail” of the enemy. But this time, taking into account the difference in speeds, the AI proposed a new method of attack: a hypersonic fighter overtook a slower aircraft and launched a hypersonic missile “over its shoulder”. Thanks to this, being at a distance of 30 km from each other, the hypersonic fighter in just 8 seconds with the help of a rocket destroyed the enemy and instantly left the battlefield.
Now military researchers in China want to use the resulting simulation to work out so-called “multi-wave attacks”. According to the researchers, hypersonic fighters will be in great demand in the upcoming military conflicts, but at such speeds it is almost impossible for a pilot to accurately aim or quickly control his arsenal, so artificial intelligence-based systems will come to the aid of the pilot.
It is precisely the development of AI systems that will help control hypersonic missiles and aircraft that China has now taken care of. This is especially true in the case of the use of drone swarm attacks in military tactics, where the speed of air defenses, fighters and missiles is of paramount importance for combating them, experts say.
Earlier, Focus wrote that Lockheed Martin received a contract for the production of hypersonic missiles for the US Army.
