General Dynamics X-62 VISTA
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2022
- 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.
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..
Oh great now we’ve got SkyNet going up all by itself. 😂
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.
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
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.)
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.
This is how we get Skynet.
yeah. its a start of the end of humanity
Same thoughts here
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.
Skyborg! what a great name!
Apparently Skynet was already taken
I believe it's a combination of skynet and the Borg from star trek
It was cool to see a more recent plane that is still in operation today. Keep up the good work!
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.
The F16, in any form, is an incredibly capable jet fighter and beautifully classic, yet modern designed aircraft!!
Long live the VIPER!
Absolutely a cool aircraft.. I need to model this one.
So informative...and a bit unnerving...but thanks none the less. Keep it up!
I'd never heard of this. Great video!
Thx for another fantastic video!
This Vista is much better than the Windows variety.
@Galileo7of9 Duh?
@@OLAUUBER I don't know I would go that far but... I would rather has Dos.
Thanks
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.
Damn I LOVE these videos !
They're absolute CZcams 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...
"I need your clothes, your boots, and your X-62 VISTA"
Truly an amazing aircraft, along with its three other X planes
Outstanding topic and writing. Thank you for this one.
The us Air Force: well produce 5000!
The us air force 10 years after development: we have about 30
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 .
"Want to play a game?", comes to mind.
Good work. Thank you.
Nice recovery Maverick 👍
Thanks from Texas Dark Dude
Cool video!!
That's insane!
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.
Damn. Coolest video yet.
What can we expect next, its amazing these days what our brilliant engineers come up with..
Even better ways to kill each other.
As both a guitarist and aviator, I find the application of amp modeling tech to aircraft intriguing.
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...
skyborg - the air wing of skynet
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'.
Banger video keep itup
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.
Who would have thought they’d have something like this that’s crazy
great content!
Imagine a droid socket in a fighter jet and everyone on earth starting in kindergarten would be required to learn droidspeak
Very interesting; nice livery 💜.
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.
I like the colors..
Interesting!
How how how how do you get all this amazing info and footage year after year??
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 not seen this one beforr ! arent us aircraft programs just ~ totally exotica ~
An AI co-pilot? So we're talking an on-board R2D2, yeah? Amazing... and may the Force be with yew...!
Just imagine the pilot needs a nap and just has to go "hey jet, take over flight controls and wake me up in 30"
this is how Skynet or Cybrids happen
Was just about to day the same. Lol 🤣
It's like X-wing with R2-D2!!! 😉
Cool
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.
I would love to take one up, even if just as a passenger. I'll take two of them!
Here's a nice video :)
This went from a really cool plane to ZOE from ace combat
Well that was legitimately frightening.
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.
Fuckin love that mad lad paint job
Just did a search of your channel for the Hawker Harrier and was suprised you haven't done a video on it.
The military has always followed sci-fi and I see they intend to continue doing so with the Vista. Same story, different platform?
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.
Now it has a name.
Scary dam thought
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)
I want one of those..
by 1:13 im already thinking " if you can put spotify in this baby we can go all macross plus in my lifetime"
I like this strong fighter to have it
Wow
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
You should do one on the YF-16 as well.
Wow. An F16 that can cobra? Amazing.
And AI so no human g limits. Probably 12g or more instead of 9g.
Always could technically
the apex of human ingenuity
Dayum
The 1960 engineer is a boss
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.
It will replace us all.
- Capt. Dick Marshfield
So they are giving pilots R2D2s. Neat!
Ach der sieht aber schick aus. Kann ich den kaufen wie lange sind die Wartezeiten?
HOLY shit f-16 cobra!!!!
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.
🚀🚀🚀
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.
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.
I hope two of the test pilots are Isamu Dyson and Ghul Goa Bowman. Macross Plus!
Wow. I’m finally on a video.
You want Terminators?
'Cause THAT'S how you get Terminators !
Skyborg? More like SKYNET 😱
Great. Why not combine Skynet and the Borg? What could go wrong?
Everybody gangsta til
Skynet wakes up.
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).
For when you need to hone your climbing invisible stairs maneuver for future use in your B-52