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Colonel Tasked With Testing Future Of Air Dominance Talks Candidly About Progress And Challenges

We talk in-depth with the 53rd Wing Commander about how his organization is deeply engaged with the latest capabilities for USAF warfighters.
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SES Space and Defense secures US Air Force Air Combat Command contract

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2024 - SES Space and Defense, a subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a multi-year contract valued at USD 46.8 million by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC). The contract involves providing G
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Gambit 5, a projected Carrier compatible variant of Gambit 2 revealed:

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At this stage, GA-ASI has no firm plans to build a Gambit 5 prototype. “I think there’s a view among the engineers that the work that we’re already involved in – for the Air Force Research Laboratory for example – is so highly adaptable that the modular system that we will build and design means that we’re not reinventing the wheel to move to this type of platform,” said Brinkley. “We’ve also done lots of work on relative navigation, and also integrated different levels of autonomy. We’ve been involved in the [AFRL’s] Skyborg programme, the DARPA CODE pilot, and we have our own in-house autonomy pilot.

“So we don’t have a carrier version sitting on the runway yet for people to fly,” he added. “Right now it’s more than theory, less than prototype.”
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General Atomics reveals new carrier-capable drone - Naval News

General Atomics has unveiled a concept for a carrier-capable variant of its Gambit autonomous collaborative platform (ACP)...
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Northrop's Stealthy Loyal Wingman Drone Breaks Cover And It Has A Cockpit

The Model 437, which was built by Northrop Grumman's subsidiary Scaled Composites, looks like the concept art aside from one very glaring detail.
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Some Replicator tranche 2 systems have already been selected, DIU head says - Breaking Defense

Doug Beck, director of the DIU, said the department has “selected some systems already,” however “there’s other things that we are still kind of finalizing.”
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CCA: Everything you need to know about the US military's drone wingman effort [VIDEO #1] - Breaking Defense

In a new video series, the Breaking Defense staff fill you in on the basics you need to know about the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
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Army reveals goals for new, large, long-range drone as it weighs industry offerings - Breaking Defense

“In our mind, the corps level needs extended sensing and should probably have an extended range UAS. At the division level, they probably need to jump a lot,” said Col. Joshua Ruisanchez.
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Tilt-Ducted Fan ARES Drone Designed To Carry Modular Payloads Has Finally Lifted Off

ARES, which has been in development for over a decade, could resupply and provide other support to dispersed U.S. forces in future conflicts.
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CCA: How industry views the Air Force's plans for loyal drone wingmen [Fireside chat VIDEO] - Breaking Defense

Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta talks with David Alexander, president of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, about the way the Air Force has run the CCA program.
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‘I don’t see it’: Before their CCA drones even take to the air, Anduril and General Atomics trade shots - Breaking Defense

Drone wingmen models were the talk of Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2024, including some pointed barbs from the competitors themselves.
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Lmao…

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‘I don’t see it’: Before their CCA drones even take to the air, Anduril and General Atomics trade shots - Breaking Defense

Drone wingmen models were the talk of Air, Space & Cyber Conference 2024, including some pointed barbs from the competitors themselves.
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Speaking to Breaking Defense on the show floor, General Atomics spokesman C. Mark Brinkley called Anduril “the Theranos of defense,” referring to the much-hyped but ultimately hollow promises from the infamous pharma tech firm. He questioned how the Fury could carry weapons and host a landing gear with a large bottom inlet along the belly of the aircraft.
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Among the biggest differences between the General Atomics and Anduril drones was the smaller size of the Fury, though analyst Byron Callan noted that the final version of the Anduril CCA will be “slightly larger” than the model. (Brose described the Anduril model as “full-scale.”)

Another “very apparent difference” between the two is that the Fury vehicle will carry weapons externally, while the General Atomics CCA has an internal weapons bay, Callan said in a Sept. 17 note to investors. “That could create more drag and make the Fury less stealthy, though it may not matter if the initial increment of CCA is a relatively small buy of air vehicles to refine tactics and training,” he said.
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has anything been shown of the Fury’s landing gear configuration?
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The intake sweeps rather sharply upward after the boundary layer diverter, creating space under the engine for the landing gear and other hardware. This is the original design before the tail redesign
 

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I was debating with myself whether to post this Sandboxx video in this thread or the AIM-260 JATM thread but I decided this was themes appropriate thread to post it in:


As the U.S. Air Force continues to reshape its vision for the future of air superiority, one element of this new strategy has quickly set itself apart as perhaps the most promising: AI-enabled drones meant to fly and fight on behalf of human pilots, known to many as the Loyal Wingman concept, but known within the Air Force as Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCAs.
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But fielding these platforms in the numbers the Air Force intends to will mean a huge production effort, and in order to keep the cost of that effort down... The U.S. Air Force needs to field new air-to-air missiles for them to carry.
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If this isn't the right thread (I don't know of any other more appropriate ones to post it in) please move it to the right thread.
 

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