Chinese Military Unveils AI System to Plan and Coordinate Mass Air Strikes

China’s air force has unveiled an AI-enabled “intelligent strike planning system” used to create battle plans for large-scale air operations, according to a CCTV documentary. The system is designed to help commanders and pilots by prioritising targets, coordinating attack waves, and assigning tasks to units. The programme reportedly supported exercises involving more than 100 units and “hundreds of targets,” with AI replacing slow traditional calculations for battlefield logic. The PLA framed the effort as part of broader “system-of-systems” warfare