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

What happens when a fighter no longer goes to work alone? The answer is beginning to reshape the logic of air combat. “Loyal wingman” drones, now formalized in U.S. Air Force terminology as ...

The Air Force has been looking into what's possible with autonomous drones and how they can fight alongside advanced crewed ...

The U.S. Air Force is accelerating its wingman drone program. Updates on CCA names, software, weapons testing, and engines ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The advent of military technology is rapidly giving rise to new and much more dangerous weapons systems. The loyal wingman ...

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 U.S. Air Force has awarded a prototype contract to Honeywell covering the design of a lightweight engine for autonomous aircraft. The design will be an evolution of the company’s ...

The world is entering a new era of air warfare—one in which the locus of power lies in who controls the “mind” of the aircraft, not just the wings. The Netherlands has agreed to join the United States ...

Uncrewed systems developer Syos Aerospace will shortly announce where in the UK it intends to locate a new production line for its SA200 rotary-wing drone. Although Syos already operates from a site ...