The U.S. Air Force’s effort to pair autonomous drones with manned fighter jets reached a concrete milestone when the YFQ-42A ...

The Air Force’s YFQ-42A and YFQ-44 Collaborative Combat Aircraft drones are now being mounted with missiles for aerial flight tests. The weapons are inert—for now. The United States Air Force ...

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By Mike Stone COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 19 (Reuters) - Anduril Industries will begin building its new FURY, "loyal wingman," high ...

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 ...

The Marines have tapped one of the companies competing to build the Air Force’s drone wingman to help develop its own Corps-specific Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a key element of its new ...

Adapting “loyal wingman” drones to helicopters is a fundamentally different challenge than adopting them to planes, as helicopters are far slower and operate at significantly lower altitudes. The ...

The advent of military technology is rapidly giving rise to new and much more dangerous weapons systems. The loyal wingman programs are one such strategic system, involving Unmanned Combat Aerial ...