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Smarter Air Combat Decisions through Reinforcement Learning
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Smarter Air Combat Decisions through Reinforcement Learning: Autonomous air combat is entering a new. Defence-finance analysis; 6-page sourced DFM PDF report.
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2025-11-10
Autonomous air combat is entering a new era where artificial intelligence replaces pre-programmed tactics with adaptive decision-making learned directly from experience.
Researchers at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have developed an intelligent maneuver decision system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using a reinforcement learning model called TD3–LSTM, which combines the Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm with Long Short-Term Memory networks.
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