Shield AI Unveils X-BAT: The First Runway-Independent AI Fighter Jet for Modern Warfare (Video)

by Emmitt Barry, with reporting from Washington D.C. Bureau StaffWASHINGTON D.C. (Worthy News) – Amid escalating global tensions and the growing threat of long-range missile warfare, U.S. defense technology firm Shield AI has unveiled what it calls a “revolution in airpower” — an autonomous, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter jet known as the X-BAT.The X-BAT—short for Experimental Battlefield Air Team—is a Group 5 unmanned aerial system featuring a low-signature, tailless blended-