The nature of air combat is about to drastically change. The need to rapidly gain advanced and highly autonomous uncrewed aircraft that work collaboratively with crewed types is becoming an imperative ...

Northrop Grumman's Talon Project is something of a late comer. After losing its initial CCA competition bid, the company launched Project Lotus, which is now trying for the CCA program as Project ...

BAE Systems has showcased mock-ups of unmanned ‘loyal wingman' concepts it is working on to meet UK requirements. The RAF has designated 216 Sqn as the unit that will help introduce this capability ...

Over the past few years, a new term started gaining traction in the military world: loyal wingman. It's a term that describes one kind or another of autonomous drones that can fly alongside crewed ...

An image showing as many as three of the CCA-type drones dockside at Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai. Chinese internet The imagery in question began to circulate recently online, with the initial ...

The Loyal Wingman concept has taken a major step toward reality as Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works pulled off an aerial demonstration where a 5th-generation F-22 Raptor interceptor took command of a ...

A low-resolution artist's impression of a Ghost Bat unmanned aircraft landing aboard a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, as it appeared in a briefing slide being presented under the Chatham ...

KAI displays a model of its loyal wingman concept at Seoul ADEX 2023. Credit: Kim Minseok/Aviation Week Network SEOUL—Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has shrunk its loyal wingman concept to quell ...

While everyone waits for the arrival of a sixth-generation fighter to gain loyal wingman capability, the US is advancing its fifth-generation jets to deploy drones first. The US Air Force is preparing ...

These unmanned loyal wingman jets are expected to fly alongside crewed sixth-generation fighters in a “wingman” drone capacity. The U.S. Air Force’s journey to field the world’s first-ever ...

The Marine Corps conducted its first test flight of the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aerial vehicle at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Monday. The flight, conducted with support from the Air Force ...

Mumbai: The Indian Navy has shortlisted a Bengaluru-based startup firm, NewSpace Research and Technologies (NRT), to develop a future Naval Collaborative Combat Air Vehicle (N-CCAV) jet-powered drone ...