Stealth is a 2005 American military science fiction action film directed by Rob Cohen, written by W. D. Richter, and starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard, Joe Morton and Richard Roxburgh.

[2][3] In the near future, the U.S. Navy develops the F/A-37 Talon, a single-seat fighter-bomber with advanced payload, range, speed, and stealth capabilities.

To further advance the program, Cummings has an artificial intelligence, the "Extreme Deep Invader" (EDI), installed on an uncrewed jet.

This sparks controversy over a machine's inability to make moral decisions versus humans' struggle to overcome ego.

While training EDI in air combat maneuvers, the team is unexpectedly reassigned to kill the heads of three terrorist cells at a conference in downtown Rangoon.

According to EDI calculation, minimum casualty can be achieved by a vertical missile strike augmented by the bomber diving at a speed sufficient to cause a human pilot to black out.

Command authorizes EDI to attack, but Gannon defies orders and carries out the strike himself, blacking out and regaining consciousness just in time to avoid crashing.

During a mission to destroy stolen nuclear warheads in Tajikistan, Wade realizes that the fallout will cause significant collateral damage.

The human pilots abort, but EDI defies orders and destroys the warheads, causing extensive radioactive fallout and civilian casualties as anticipated.

In the ensuing dogfight, a missile Purcell fires at EDI explodes on a mountain, blinding him and causing a fatal crash.

Richter spec script set up at Phoenix Pictures about a high- tech air force fighter drone that malfunctions, wiping out the better part of a crewed elite squadron.

[8] In March 2005, Leo Stoller, who claimed to own trademark rights to the word "stealth", served Columbia Pictures with a "cease and desist" letter threatening litigation if they did not rename the film to something "non infringing".

[10] The Environmental Defender's Office, a community legal centre specialising in environmental law, successfully represented the Blue Mountains Conservation Society Inc. in its attempts to prevent filming of Stealth in the Grose Valley wilderness area of the Blue Mountains National Park, NSW, Australia, in May 2004.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Loud, preposterous, and predictable, Stealth borrows heavily and unsuccessfully from Top Gun and 2001.