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Northrop's Self-Funded Talon Blue Flies Itself at Mojave After Losing the CCA Round on Cost

The company-funded YFQ-48A cut parts and weight to get Northrop back into an Air Force drone-wingman plan that already has two airframes in production.

Oct 8, 2026 · 5 min read

USA

Air Force Takes Delivery of Its First Two Robot Wingmen at Creech

Fury and Vengeance have moved from company demonstrations to Air Force operator-led testing, while both manufacturers build production jets ahead of new federal funding.

Sep 27, 2026

USA

Navy Wires Its Strike Planners to an Autonomous MQ-20 Before Picking a Carrier Drone

A Gray Flag 2026 test sent a human-built mission plan to an autonomous MQ-20 Avenger, giving the Navy a platform-agnostic planning layer for combat drones it has not yet bought.

Sep 23, 2026

USA

Navy Sets $30 Million Ceiling for Carrier Combat Drone

The service wants two prototypes that can survive catapult launches, arrested landings and Sea State 5 within a three-year certification sprint.

Sep 1, 2026

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Anduril's Fury Fired Its First Live AMRAAM. The Software That Ran the Shot Is the Real Contest.

The first live missile shot from a US robotic wingman came ten months after first flight and ran on Anduril's own Lattice software, in the middle of a three-way autonomy contest the Air Force decides by summer 2027.

Jul 15, 2026

USA

Anduril and General Atomics win the Air Force's first robot-fighter production deals

The Air Force put its Collaborative Combat Aircraft into production four months early, handing a defense-tech challenger a marquee program that Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman bid for and lost.

Jun 18, 2026