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X-62A VISTA: World’s only self-flying F-16 advances path to autonomous air combat

The Air Force renamed the aircraft X-62A VISTA in 2021, marking its transition from a simulation platform to an experimental ...
FlightGlobal

US Air Force to equip X-62 fighter with Raytheon’s PhantomStrike radar for AI combat testing

The US Air Force will install Raytheon's PhantomStrike active electronically scanned array radar on its X-62 VISTA test ...
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Air Force starts ground testing Anduril collaborative combat aircraft

The Air Force has started ground testing its first Anduril-made semiautonomous drone wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft, which could be flying within months. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
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Top 10: Best Soviet combat aircraft of the Second World War

Despite being the world’s largest air force, the Soviet Air Force (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily or VVS) was caught on the back foot ...
The Aviationist

General Atomics’ YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft Takes Flight

The YFQ-42 becomes the first of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft to enter flight testing. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced on Aug. 27, 2025, that its YFQ-42A ...
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Air Force sets up new Experimental Operations Unit for Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Concept art of the uncrewed fighter aircraft YFQ-42A (bottom left) and the YFQ-44A (top right). The U.S. Air Force’s 53rd Wing officially elevated its Collaborative Combat Aircraft unit to a fully ...
Homeland Security Today

Air Force Combat Aircraft Takes Flight During Testing

A YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft test aircraft is staged in Poway, Calif., May 19, 2025. The Department of the Air Force has begun ground testing for the CCA program to validate performance and ...
The Aviationist

Anduril’s YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft Flies for the First Time

With the YFQ-44 now flying, both of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft are in flight testing. The YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) developed by Anduril has conducted its ...
Aviation Week Network

U.S. Air Force Expands Vendor Pool For CCA Increment 2

The U.S. Air Force has expanded the pool of competitors vying for the second increment of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) ...
KHQ

Making Air Forces Resilient, Scalable and Large

In these, aircraft losses in combat are more likely than not. Modern air forces fighting in such wars might have short lives. In the last major air war of 1939-1945, many tens of thousands of aircraft ...
Aviation Week Network

Philippines FA-50 Light Combat Fleet To Get KAI Upgrades

The Philippines has signed a contract with Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to upgrade its air force’s existing fleet of 11 FA-50PH light combat aircraft. Valued at KRW93 billion ($64 million), the ...
Stars and Stripes

Air Force’s new deployable task force wraps up its first Indo-Pacific mission

A new type of Air Force expeditionary unit designed to deploy in a crisis recently tested how to fight and survive across vast distances in the Pacific ...