The skies above tomorrow’s battlefields will look dramatically different from today’s air combat scenarios. Instead of solitary fighters prowling for targets, the F-35 Teams with AI Drone: USAF’s ...

Activity is burgeoning in a long-neglected portion of the turbofan engine sector with the rise of a new category of jet-powered, autonomous warplanes. In the past month, the U.S.' ...

The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program aims to procure approximately 1,000 autonomous "loyal wingmen" drones by 2030 to assist crewed fighter jets. General Atomics’ YFQ-42A ...

For the first time, the U.S. Air Force is asking Congress to fund the purchase of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, marking the beginning of the “loyal wingman” era. The service’s fiscal 2027 budget ...

Anduril announced the start of the YFQ-44A’s production at its Arsenal-1 factory, with new manufacturing processes allowing to supply a large number of drones to the U.S. Air Force. Anduril’s YFQ-44A ...

MOJAVE, Calif.—When Northrop Grumman lost its initial bid for the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft, the company went back to the drawing board. Now, it wants to fly a new prototype, ...

Airbus plans to conduct the first flight of its uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft (UCCA) system—combining Kratos’ XQ-58A Valkyrie drone with its MARS mission software—alongside a Eurofighter ...

From parade floats to carrier decks, China’s collaborative combat aircraft programme is advancing on multiple fronts. But beneath the variety of airframes lies a simpler truth: the real competition is ...

With a plan to augment its Euro­fighter Typhoon fleet and eventual Lockheed Martin F-35s with collaborative combat aircraft, Germany is emerging as an early battleground for the European market for ...

The U.S. Air Force announced, Dec. 22, the designation of YFQ-48A – seen here in an undated photo – as the Mission Design Series (MDS) for Northrop Grumman’s Project Talon, a semi-autonomous prototype ...