Kirk Lippold joins'Fox & Friends' to discuss China's latest show of force near Taiwan and calls on Biden to make sure China is deterred from ever making an attack. A top U.S. Navy leader said last week that artificial intelligence capabilities are already being built into the U.S. fleet but said it will likely take some time before they are comfortable handing over full operational control to an AI system. At a Navy League event in Maryland last week, Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday said the Navy has more than 50,000 nautical miles under its belt of "transit in an autonomous mode." "We have a high degree of confidence in the AI's ability to follow rules and to avoid traffic, to stay within the channel when required," he said. "We've made transits from the Gulf Coast of the United States repeatedly through the Panama Canal and up around – to Port Hueneme, California."

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Facing a growing threat from China, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm's way. The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to keep pace with China's growing fleet while vowing not to repeat costly shipbuilding blunders from recent years. The four largest drone ships are being used together this summer during a multination naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean.

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com. The U.S. Navy could possibly operate thousands of combat ships in the coming years as the service seeks to combine surface, air and undersea drones into its fleet. It is part of a formal Integrated Force Structure Assessment in which analysis teams led by the chief of naval operations and Marine Corps commandant explored questions of fleet size in relation to fast-emerging man-unmanned teaming integration. "[W]e came up with a discreet number of ships which was more than 355 and then command and control drone networking separately unmanned," Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said earlier this year at the Navy's 2020 West Conference in San Diego, California. The assessment, Gilday explained, was not so much "coordinated" as "integrated," taking up a blend between a specific number of planned manned ships and a still "conceptual" number of drones.