{"id":1478,"date":"2025-10-22T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:18:15","slug":"shield-ai-develops-worlds-first-autonomous-vtol-fighter-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/shield-ai-develops-worlds-first-autonomous-vtol-fighter-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Shield AI develops world\u2019s first autonomous VTOL fighter jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1277\" height=\"957\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A mock-up of the X-BAT on its launch trailer. Photo courtesy of Shield AI\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G30QgGOXoAET1KX.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Shield AI, a defense technology company now valued at $5.3 billion, has announced the launch of the X-Bat, its first vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) autonomous fighter jet designed for combat. The company will unveil the new aircraft on Wednesday, positioning it as a central piece in the future of distributed airpower. According to Shield [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/shield-ai-develops-worlds-first-autonomous-vtol-fighter-jet\/\">Shield AI develops world\u2019s first autonomous VTOL fighter jet<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/defence-blog.com\">Defence Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shield AI, a defense technology company now valued at $5.3 billion, has announced the launch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.800canada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}