Nascent Collaborative Combat Aircraft Market Draws Engine-Makers

Orpheus demonstrator

Rolls-Royce’s Orpheus demonstrator is enabling the company to develop technologies that could support development of engines for CCA, or ACP, as they are known in the UK.

Credit: Rolls-Royce
As concepts of affordable airpower mass using uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft approach reality, engine manufacturers are proposing families of new powerplants for them. With collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) development programs underway in the U.S. and Europe, engine-makers see a market...
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