36-year-old jet engine designed for F-16 set to power world's first AI-piloted VTOL fighter

Shield AI’s unmanned vertical takeoff craft the X-BAT is employing axisymmetric vectoring, using a a jet engine first tested ...
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Canada designed an X-Wing fighter that could launch vertically from small ships

Avro Canada’s TSP-140 proposal used four upswept wings and four wingtip jet engines, giving it an X-shaped appearance decades before Star Wars. Redirecting exhaust through special nozzles allowed ...