AI & AutonomyYFQ-44A Has First Flight, Anduril Planning for Weapons Shot Next Year Anduril Industries‘ YFQ-44A Fury prototype drone for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program had its debut flight Oct. 31 at a California test site, according to the Air Force.…
AI & AutonomyHASC Wants USAF to Lay Out Plan for Full-Scale Production of CCA Increment 1 The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the U.S. Air Force to lay out its plan for full- scale production of Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Increment 1. “The committee expects the Air…
UnmannedAnduril Offers Autonomous Air Vehicles, Rocket Motors To Europe In Partnership With Rheinmetall Anduril Industries is offering its Barracuda and Fury air vehicles to Europe through a partnership with Germany’s Rheinmetall, which will provide its digital platform that will integrate the autonomous air systems, the…
AI & AutonomyAnduril Teams With eVTOL Developer Archer To Pitch UK Military and Civil Aircraft Anduril Industries’ UK subsidiary this week announced it is leading a team with Archer Aviation to bid for future military and civil flight opportunities with the latter’s Midnight electric vertical Takeoff and…
AI & AutonomyPrototype CCA Range to Be Greater Than F-35A and F-22 The range of the U.S. Air Force’s prototype autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is to be at least 700 nautical miles–greater than the 590 nautical mile range of the Air Force F-22…
MilitaryCCA Challenge: Accommodating Sensor Processing to Meet Size, Weight, Power, Cost Goals The U.S. Air Force’s future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) may need a significant amount of processing power for sensors and mission autonomy, and the service and industry thus face a challenge of…
AI & AutonomyAnduril Adds To Autonomous UAS Portfolio With Bolt VTOL Family Maintaining a steady drumbeat of new product releases, Anduril Industries on Thursday unveiled its Bolt family of small, man-packable autonomous air vehicles that include surveillance and munition variants, which the Marine Corps…
UnmannedNew Ghost 4 sUAS from Anduril Offers More Endurance, Autonomy and Teaming Capabilities Anduril Industries this week released Ghost 4, the latest iteration of its small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) designed for military and commercial use. The company founder Palmer Luckey, describes it simply as…