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Hivemind autonomy pilots the V-BAT VTOL aircraft and third-party jets without GPS or comms links.

100

Trust score · Verified

2 data points checked · 2026-09-14

Model stack: VerifiedVersion: VerifiedHow this works →

Current version

Hivemind

Entry cost

Contact sales for pricing (defense/enterprise)

Changes / 30d

3

The short answers · verified September 15, 2026

What is the latest version of V-BAT / Hivemind?
The current shipped version of V-BAT / Hivemind is Hivemind, as of September 15, 2026.
How much does V-BAT / Hivemind cost?
V-BAT / Hivemind has no published flat entry price. Contact sales for pricing (defense/enterprise)
What AI model does V-BAT / Hivemind use?
V-BAT / Hivemind runs primarily on Hivemind reinforcement-learned pilot.

Source: Shield AI — shield.ai · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • GPS-denied autonomy
  • No comms link required
  • VTOL fixed-wing
  • Third-party airframe ports
  • Autonomous AI Pilot
  • Mission Autonomy
  • ISR & Targeting
  • Teaming Drones
  • Autonomy Development
  • Resilient Autonomy
  • AI Pilot
  • Autonomous Flight
  • Unmatched ISR & Targeting
  • Tactical UAS
  • Tactical UAS (V-BAT)
  • Autonomous Aircraft
  • Tactical Maneuvers
  • Simulation & Training
  • Autonomy
  • AI pilot
  • Tactical maneuvers
  • Flight Simulation
  • Synthetic Reality
  • Autonomous flight
  • Teaming drones
  • Mission autonomy
  • Autonomous Tactical Maneuvers
  • Synthetic Reality & Simulation
  • Simulation Platform
  • ISR & targeting
  • Synthetic Reality and Simulation
  • Flight Simulation & Training
  • Tactical Autonomous Flight
  • Autonomous tactical maneuvers
  • autonomous piloting
  • tactical maneuvers
  • mission autonomy
  • multi-agent teaming

Pricing

Contact sales for pricing (defense/enterprise)

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Hivemind

    Shield AI

    inferred

  • Hivemind reinforcement-learned pilot

    Shield AI

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Onboard RL policies
  • Edge compute
  • F-16 flight demos

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

  • capability

    New capabilities: autonomous piloting, tactical maneuvers, mission autonomy

    34 tracked38 tracked · +autonomous piloting, tactical maneuvers, mission autonomy, multi-agent teaming

    source
  • version

    V-BAT / Hivemind moved to Hivemind

    Hivemind 2025Hivemind

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous tactical maneuvers

    33 tracked34 tracked · +Autonomous tactical maneuvers

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tactical Autonomous Flight

    32 tracked33 tracked · +Tactical Autonomous Flight

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Flight Simulation & Training

    31 tracked32 tracked · +Flight Simulation & Training

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Synthetic Reality and Simulation

    30 tracked31 tracked · +Synthetic Reality and Simulation

    source
  • model

    V-BAT / Hivemind added Hivemind to its model stack

    Hivemind reinforcement-learned pilotHivemind, Hivemind reinforcement-learned pilot

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: ISR & targeting

    29 tracked30 tracked · +ISR & targeting

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Simulation Platform

    28 tracked29 tracked · +Simulation Platform

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous Tactical Maneuvers, Synthetic Reality & Simulation

    26 tracked28 tracked · +Autonomous Tactical Maneuvers, Synthetic Reality & Simulation

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous flight, Teaming drones, Mission autonomy

    23 tracked26 tracked · +Autonomous flight, Teaming drones, Mission autonomy

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomy, AI pilot, Tactical maneuvers

    18 tracked23 tracked · +Autonomy, AI pilot, Tactical maneuvers, Flight Simulation, Synthetic Reality

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous Aircraft, Tactical Maneuvers, Simulation & Training

    15 tracked18 tracked · +Autonomous Aircraft, Tactical Maneuvers, Simulation & Training

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tactical UAS (V-BAT)

    14 tracked15 tracked · +Tactical UAS (V-BAT)

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Tactical UAS

    13 tracked14 tracked · +Tactical UAS

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Unmatched ISR & Targeting

    12 tracked13 tracked · +Unmatched ISR & Targeting

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous Flight

    115

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Resilient Autonomy, AI Pilot

    94

    source
  • capability

    New capabilities: Autonomous AI Pilot, Mission Autonomy, ISR & Targeting

    45

    source
  • capability

    Hivemind autonomy ported to additional third-party airframes

    —Multi-airframe autonomy

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/shield-ai-vbat

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). V-BAT / Hivemind — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/shield-ai-vbat
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-shield-ai-vbat,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {V-BAT / Hivemind — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/shield-ai-vbat}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}