#collaborative combat aircraft

Boeing has begun MQ-28 Ghost Bat test flights over the Pacific from Point Mugu, using the US Navy range to demonstrate the drone’s maturity and strengthen export prospects beyond Australia.

The U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for nearly $1 billion to begin buying its first Collaborative Combat Aircraft, signaling that semi-autonomous wingmen are moving from experimentation into the planned force structure

The U.S. Air Force has completed a contested-operations exercise with Anduril’s YFQ-44 Fury prototype, using the event to refine how collaborative combat aircraft could be deployed and sustained sooner.

A General Atomics prototype for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program crashed after takeoff in California, prompting a temporary pause in YFQ-42A flight testing.

Boeing Australia and Rheinmetall are offering the MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Germany, opening a new front in Europe’s race to field collaborative combat aircraft before the end of the decade.

Anduril is set to begin producing its Fury loyal-wingman drone at a new Ohio facility, signaling a manufacturing-centric push to scale autonomous combat aircraft for future Pentagon demand.