“Maybe [it’s] just symbolic, but it’s telling the world that we are leaning into a new chapter of aerial warfare," Gen. David Allvin said.

"Both industry teammates are on the path to get to first flight in a timeline that allows us to get operational capability by the end of the…

Raytheon is working with the service and the two vendors competing in the ongoing development-for-production phase of CCA Increment 1 to incorporate the missiles onto the drones.

“We will get down to a lower number of those vendors, and they will create an autonomy implementation that will be applied to CCA Increment 1," Brig.…

The addition of AESA radar will make the platform significantly more capable.

The Air Force plans to make a production decision for CCA Increment 1 by fiscal 2026.

The trial came as the U.K. and U.S. are pursuing new robotic platforms for strike, ISR and other missions.

General Atomics has received a $94 million award to complete the third and final phase of DARPA's effort to develop armed, air-launched drones.

The initiative aims to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons after being launched from a crewed aircraft.

The Marine Corps plans to deploy more unmanned aerial vehicles to the Asia-Pacific to keep an eye on Chinese forces.