随着智能技术向军事领域的渗透与发展，未来的智能化战争将呈现“认知与决策更加复杂、变化与演进更加迅速、进入与拒止全域全维”三个方面的特征，下一代飞行器将以按需飞行为本，以人工智能为核，以灵活变化为要，因此，与未来作战需求相匹配的智能变形飞行器将是重要的发展趋势与方向。智变飞行器将不同飞行剖面有效组合，使多种飞行能力有效融合，突破现有飞行边界，实现时空拓展、高效飞行，提高跨域作战能力，是飞行器性能提升的新途径，具有重大的研究意义与突出的发展潜力。然而，智变飞行器技术难度高，变形在系统复杂度提升等方面带来的代价，对气动设计、飞行控制、结构实现均提出诸多难题，其核心问题是在工程多学科约束下实现每个形态的最优设计。当前国内在变构型方向已具备较好的技术基础，但智能变形飞行器未来的发展研究，需要多学科共同推动，使其系统融合“智能”与“变形”技术，整体发挥“算法极速升级”与“硬件极度灵活”的双重优势，形成新型飞行模式与新质作战能力。

With artificial intelligent technologies applied and developed in the military field, intelligent warfare becomes a certain tendency in the future. Intelligent warfare has the following traits: the cognition shared and the decision made being more complex, the changes and the evolution being more rapid, and the access and the denial existing in the whole warfare. Therefore, smart morphing aircraft, which match the combat needs in future warfare, becomes an important trend. Smart morphing aircraft is a new way to improve aircraft performance, showing particular research significance and outstanding development potential. It combines different flight profiles effectively and integrates multiple flight capabilities efficiently. It breaks through the existing flight boundaries, achieves expansion both in time and space, and improves the combat capabilities in multi-domain operation. However, achieving smart morphing aircraft design re-quires complicated technologies. The costs of deformation, such as the increased complexity of the machine system, pose challenges to aerodynamic design, flight control, and structural implementation, where the core problem is to achieve the optimal design in each shape under the constraint of multidisciplinary engineering. For now, China has a good technical foundation in morphing technology, but the development of smart morphing aircraft in the future calls for joint efforts promoted by multiple disciplines. With that, smart morphing aircraft could apply the intelligent technolo-gy and the deformation technology together, benefit from fast algorithm upgrades and flexible hardware applications, and introduce new flight modes and new combat capabilities.