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A great view into how Indian startups are developing architecture for manned-unmanned teaming. First of its kind demo by Newspace & Delhi startup Threye of a fighter-UCAV paired mission — based on NewSpace’s ACID (Air Combat Intelligence Dev) thrust.

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K Singh1 year ago

@ThreyeGames @joe_sameer Imagine what could be delivered from India if these big brains stopped throwing $10s of billions at foreign OEMs and leaving just scraps for Indian entities

Sameer Joshi1 year ago

#ACID defines an incremental way ahead on development of an #AI #pilot and Manned Unmanned Teaming #MUMT architecture for 4/4.5/5 Gen aircraft and UCAV/ CCAs working as a #KillMesh. UCAV/CCA/Loyal Wingmen will be an essential layer for all air forces in the days ahead, which will need to be powered by cutting edge collaborative intelligence suite. #ACID is WIP at #NRT on this vector .....

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10th.man1 year ago

@ThreyeGames @joe_sameer @alpha_defense @Defencematrix1

Vmehta1 year ago

@ThreyeGames @joe_sameer Wishing all the very best to our brilliant Indian startups.

Somshuvra Basu1 year ago

@ThreyeGames @joe_sameer Nice to see @ThreyeGames here, remember them from the Guardians of the skies, released almost a decade back by them.

Gautam Agarwal 🇮🇳1 year ago

@ThreyeGames @joe_sameer Nice to see we're getting there

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