Airbus Ravenstorm

Airbus Defence and Space's U760 Ravenstorm is an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft concept — a stealthy loyal wingman for air-to-air combat, precision strike and electronic warfare, unveiled as a full-scale model at ILA Berlin 2026 and pitched into Germany's post-FCAS combat-drone competition.

Overview

The U760 Ravenstorm is the flagship of Airbus Defence and Space's uncrewed combat-aircraft line — what the company calls an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft (UCCA), the European term for the collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) or "loyal wingman" class flying in the United States and Australia. Airbus announced it on 9 June 2026, the eve of the ILA Berlin air show, as the centerpiece of a renamed "U"-prefix drone portfolio, and displayed a full-scale 1:1 model on the show floor. The company describes a multi-mission aircraft for precision strike, air-to-air defense with medium- and long-range missiles, and electronic warfare against enemy air defenses.

The essential caveat comes first: the Ravenstorm is a concept with a mock-up, not a flying aircraft. Nothing has flown, no engine has been announced, there is no launch customer, and Airbus's own availability claim is the early 2030s — delivery-ready by 2032, the company told Aviation Week. Its significance is strategic: the unveiling landed the day after the Franco-German-Spanish FCAS fighter program collapsed, and it puts Airbus into a four-way race — against the Boeing–Rheinmetall MQ-28 Ghost Bat, Helsing's CA-1 Europa and General Atomics' Gambit family — for a German collaborative-combat-aircraft order the Luftwaffe wants fielded around 2029.

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