Collaborative Combat Aircraft should be viewed as force-builders and not expendable vehicles, senior USAF and industry leaders said at a panel discussion during the AFA Warfare Symposium in Colorado this week. Building 1,000 such aircraft in the needed timelines will require tapping the commercial industrial ...
As the Air Force moves forward with plans to utilize unmanned aircraft systems in new and increasingly powerful ways, the U.S. is still stuck in how much it can share those capabilities with allies and partners—creating a dangerous vacuum that China has moved to fill, ...
The Gremlins drone swarming technology program needs to prove a C-130 can reel in four flying drones in 30 minutes before moving on to testing potential uses for the system. If successful, follow-on testing likely will demonstrate the ability to operate with payloads and a ...
The Skyborg software and hardware suite allowing unmanned aircraft to team with crewed ones flew for the first time April 29, the Air Force said, launching a series of experiments meant to prove the safety and effectiveness of the approach.