The age of the piloted fighter aircraft may not be over but the US Air Force has shown that it may be time to start collecting the coats, as it has designated two prototype combat drones as ...

AVALON, Australia–The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received a first briefing on the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) that Italy, Japan and the UK are jointly developing, says the ...

General Atomics' CCA, pictured here at the September 2024 AFA convention, has been dubbed the YFQ-42A; Anduril's will be known as the YFQ-44A. (Stephen Losey/Defense News) AURORA, Colo. — The ...

AURORA, Colo. — The Air Force’s first two prototype collaborative combat aircraft have received their mission design series designations and will fly this summer, Chief of Staff Gen.

The most advanced fighter jets in the world are known as “fifth generation”. They contain technologies developed in the first part of the 21st century. Examples of fifth generation fighter ...

LONDON—Saab is gearing up to install a new artificial intelligence (AI) aid on its Gripen E combat aircraft that will assist pilots in beyond-visual-range (BVR) air-to-air combat. The AI agent ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Tucked in a corner of the Combat Air Museum are some of the most powerful jet engines in the world. “We have aircraft engines running from WWI rotary engines all the way up ...

The Air Force designated the first two uncrewed aircraft as fighter jets, the YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A. The prototypes were designed as part of the USAF's next-generation air dominance program.

The U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff announced that the first two Collaborative Combat Aircraft will be designated YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A, making them the first assets to ever fall under the Unmanned ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced this week that Paris would seek to increase its fleet of Dassault Rafale omnirole fighters while investing around €1.5 billion to increase the ...

Outsized combat aircraft built for stealthy long-range supersonic flight may be worth the cost for the US and China, but countries in Europe may be better off pursuing other capabilities. On 26 ...

A CCA is an uncrewed combat jet that is relatively cheap to build, but can fulfil a similar set of missions to manned fighter jets using technologies such as artificial intelligence to allow them ...