Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites on Dec. 3 unveiled Project Talon, the company’s latest design of an uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Japan has completed a series of proof-of-concept flights involving multiple scaled collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) and MUM-T from a helicopter.

The U.S. Air Force for the past year has faced an internal debate that ultimately upended the service’s top leadership.

An F-22 fighter and an uncrewed jet collaborated in the skies over a remote area of Nevada in a company-funded demonstration, GA-ASI says.

GE Aerospace is developing a small turbofan engine for midsized Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Watch as editors discuss the impact of policy changes at the Pentagon before they break down the latest developments with the B-21 and multiple CCA projects.

Listen to our editors discuss the impact of policy changes at the Pentagon before they break down the latest developments with the B-21 and multiple CCA projects.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The service has outlined a goal to add hundreds of fighters, but it stops short of addressing funding and capacity limits.

Shield AI has chosen GE Aerospace’s F110 engine to power its X-Bat vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS).

General Atomics is proposing a specialized air-to-ground member of the company’s Gambit family of modular uncrewed aircraft systems.

The Republic of Korea Air Force plans to field aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence by the early 2030s to fly alongside KAI F-50 and KF-21 fighters.

The flight comes about two months after its competitor for CCA Increment 1, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., notched the first flight of its YFQ-42A.

Northrop Grumman has secretly built a large new uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), dubbed Project Lotus.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are possible sales targets in Asia for the newly unveiled X-BAT VTOL collaborative combat aircraft, a Sheild AI official says.

The rising popularity of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has spread to the U.S. Army, which is now considering the reusable systems to augment crewed rotorcraft.

The Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) design needs to have “full-spectrum” low-observability and ultra-long range built in, the RAF's programs head says.

Shield AI, the software-focused company known for its widely used Hivemind autonomy system, plans to enter into the world of high-end aircraft development with an uncrewed fighter it calls X-BAT.

Korean Air's Aerospace Division is displaying the third prototype of its Low Observable Wingman UAV System (LOWUS) with first flight of the system penciled in for December.

The next step for the Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat is a flying demonstration next year.

KAI’s concept rebrands Collaborative Combat Aircraft as Adaptable Aerial Platforms.

Hanwha Aerospace has unveiled the design of the first member in a family of future turbofan engines at ADEX 2025 that are sized between 5,500-17,000-lb. thrust.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has confirmed it has been selected to develop a conceptual design of Collaborative Combat Aircraft for the U.S. Navy.