Modern air power is not defined solely by the most advanced aircraft, but by the platforms that consistently deliver results across a wide range of missions. Within the United States Air Force, a ...
Air combat is changing faster than at any point since the transition from propellers to jets. After three decades of largely unchallenged Western air dominance, a genuine contest for the skies has ...
General Atomics ran an autonomy test with a testbed drone and a US Air Force F-22 Raptor. The F-22 pilot commanded the MQ-20, a stand-in for a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft. CCAs are loyal ...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and the U.S. Air Force recently conducted a flight test focused on advancing autonomous capabilities for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, using an MQ-20 Avenger ...
The days are longer, the temperatures milder, the skies steadily brighter. Yup, in the northern latitudes, the time has arrived. And this year, as the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, air show ...
Tankers, C-17s, A-10s, F-16s, MH-53s — all of these aircraft have been pulled away to take care of combat operations." ...
The future of aerial combat is shifting towards Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), also known as loyal wingmen. These ...
Mission autonomy software by Collins and Shield AI was integrated on the YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 CCAs by using the government-owned A-GRA architecture. The U.S. Air Force has reached a new milestone in its ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, the deep--tech company building state--of--the--art autonomy software products and aircraft, today announced its selection as a mission autonomy ...