Dassault Aviation Flight-Tests New AI on Rafale Fighter Jet

Dassault Aviation has successfully completed flight tests of two new, domestically developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms aboard its Rafale fighter jet. One algorithm was created by the company's own engineers, while the second was developed in collaboration with Thales/cortAIx.

The integration of these AI functions is part of a larger initiative to incorporate controlled and supervised AI into the aircraft's cockpit, designed to assist the human crew. The algorithms have reached a level of maturity that makes them eligible for future Rafale upgrades.

These flight tests underscore Dassault Aviation's expertise in integrating AI into combat systems. This capability requires mastering several key challenges specific to military aviation, including ensuring the availability and quality of operational data, leveraging domain expertise, and optimizing resource efficiency on an embedded platform with stringent constraints.

Dassault Aviation's decades of experience as an industrial architect and integrator of complex systems position it well to address these technological hurdles.