Ghost Bat Is An Aircraft Like No Other

The Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat, is a stealth, multirole, unmanned aerial vehicle in development by Boeing Australia for the Royal Australian Air Force.

Ghost Bat utilizes artificial intelligence and is part of what was previously known as the Loyal Wingman project — an initiative to give fighter pilots an uncrewed partner in the sky.

Will this new aircraft take over the skies?

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[notimportant]

It’s starting to look like the top-down shooter games we had back in the 80s-90s, you gain additional wingmen with the power ups you collect

[RickyDownhillRDH]

Can you imagine the kinds of maneuvering and G-Forces these future planes will be able to demonstrate without a pilot?

[grey]

You could have guessed that that was a Boeing product without being told it's got their look for sure. It's kind of cool to see the design language between manufacturers a lot like automakers have their unique design language.

[johnwatson]

I love it when you have a good line coach, offensive coach each doing their own job.

[ianrobinson]

12/07/2022 EXCELLANT. The Australian aviation industry has been in the forefront of innovation for a long time. A UAV was developed and used years and years ago with the name of Jindivik, an Indigenous name, but I cannot remembe its' English translation. They were used as a target UAV before uav's were known as such. Keep up the good work MATES! Boeing is now involved as we do not have our own aircraft manufacturer and longer. CAC brough out by Boeing?

[timn]

The idea isn't to develop a fighter drone to mirror the capability of a piloted aircraft. Imagine them more as a stealthy drone which can triangulate over-the-horizon weapons. A pilot can fire and forget.. then move to other targets while the bat guides it beyond any radar reach.

[Playtime-luwj]

The secretive AI control being developed by the Australians is the key to the MQ-28 Ghost Bat.

[peterdwyer]

Us ozzies have a high engineering standard, and we do more than most realise, ,

[mick]

It's good to see we are stepping up to the challenges of the future!
Although six really isn't going to be enough surely!
Good video!

[kcdiazWTV]

Pilot to Ghost Bat: You can be my wingman anytime.
Ghost Bat to pilot: Beep bop beep bop. <bullshit. you can be mine>

[タコの王]

Currently a research project, but in the future it will provide air to air, air to ground and surveillance at less than ~10% the cost of a F-35. They can be produced quickly so you don't need to keep a large quantity in storage.

[smeary]

It'll have swappable modular nose sections that will enable Ghost Bat to do recon, search & rescue, air to air, air to ground, CAS, anti-radar, and electronic spectrum jamming. So a single manned parent aircraft will be able to have a squadron of Ghost Bats flying with it, all with differing nose cones allowing each one to perform a different mission profile on the same mission. The fact that it's extremely stealthy and very fast, and the fact that it's already test flown and that there are a number actually built and testing makes the Ghost Bat the most advanced UAV in the world with its capabilities. Nothing else on the drawing board or operational is this far down the track with these capabilities and perfomance. These will only be made available to close allies.

[mitchellbutler]

Yes impressive, it wont be long till they teach missiles to see the difference in shape between a ghost bat and an F-35 . Heat seeking is the main structure now but with this tech there will be upgrades made to combat it . I think these kind of innovations will have to eventually mimic size and scale of the aircraft they shadow . Brilliant technology

[yellowgold]

Humans, a creation ourselves, create creations that imitate creations made by the ultimate creator.

[BS-vmbt]

Now with airbus vs boeing again. Will be interesting to see what differences there will be between NGAD, FCAS and Tempest. Though it is a possibility that Tempest and FCAS merge since we both develop drones that are compatible with each other.

Fun to see the old rivalry continue from the civil aviation market to the military domain. Will be interesting what the differences will be between each 6th gen programs capabilities.

[bigmanDOTS]

Would be quite significant to be armed internally with a long range anti ship missile and linked to naval vessels in particular the rather naked arufura opvs

[christopherhiggins]

The SKYNET Air Force begins... hehe But on a serious note that is cool as hell.

[aatkarelse]

Even the most boring version of this concept has great potential: as an carrier of extra ordinance, having a radar on board so the human pilots are not spotted, as decoys.

[TheMilpitasguy]

Interesting concept. I knew about the Valkyrie stealth drones as loyal wingmen for the F-35A, just had not thought about them serving as loyal wingmen for E-3 Sentry AWACS as well, negating the need for fighter escorts when they're operating alone. China has made boastful claims about using J-20s as AWACS-killers and midair-refueler-killers before.