U.S. Air Force Presses For Collaborative Combat Aircraft Cost Sharing

Boeing Australia’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat

The U.S. Air Force wants to use Boeing Australia’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat to start to determine how to operate Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Credit: Australian Defense Department
The U.S. Air Force will soon narrow to two companies the competition to provide the first airframes for its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, but the service’s top leader is pressing industry to spend more on their own development to bring a third contestant along. The service announced in...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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