General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) was one of two companies, along with Anduril Industries, to be awarded a contract last year to continue developing the “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...

Buying both Collaborative Combat Aircraft designs instead of just selecting one has a number of big advantages to what is still a high-risk program.

The first GA-ASI YFQ-42A lifts off from a southern California airfield. A competing CCA, the Anduril YFQ-44A, is also likely to enter flight testing soon. (GA-ASI) The General Atomics Aeronautical ...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announced May 21 that its YFQ-42A collaborative combat aircraft prototype has returned to flight about a month and a half after one of the early prototypes ...

The YFQ-42A collaborative combat aircraft, made by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., takes off at a undisclosed California location for its first flight. (Air Force) The Air Force announced ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is presently pursuing the integration of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) into military operations, in a bid to increase the effectiveness and lethality of its crewed ...

General Atomics smaller unmanned jet, YFQ-42A, could start helping the F-35 and F-22 later in 2025. The YFQ-42A and the Anduril YFQ-44A are designed to augment fighters like the F-22 and F-35 using ...

The YFQ-44A is one of two drones in development as part of the first phase, or Increment 1, of the Air Force's CCA program.

American defense contractor General Atomics has been at it making drones for almost 20 years already, but it is only now stepping into the brave new world of autonomy, hoping to impress the military ...

Anduril's YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft fired an AIM-120 missile at a simulated target over the Mojave Desert on July 10 — the first live-fire weapons test by a U.S. autonomous combat wingman, ...

The U.S. Air Force completed its first-ever collaborative combat aircraft live-fire test with the Anduril YFQ-44A.