The U.S. Air Force's Next Killer Drone Could Fly And Fight All By Itself

An MQ-9 Reaper assigned to the 214th Attack Group, Arizona Air National Guard, flies over Michigan. The U.S. Air Force wants a new hunter-killer drone to replace its current fleet of 306 propeller-driven MQ-9 Reapers. And it could end up including a version of the service's Skyborg artificial intelligence. Where the Reaper is pretty dumb, the new drone could be very clever. The Air Force on June 3 released a request for information to the aerospace industry for a next-generation unmanned intelligence-strike platform.