Anduril Industries' YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft flew for the first time today, the Air Force announced, furthering the service's efforts to field swarms of drone wingmen by the end of the decade. The test flight took place at a California test location on Oct. 31, the service wrote in a news release, adding the “testing expands the program’s knowledge base on flight performance, autonomous behaviors and mission system integration.” A separate CCA prototype built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems took...
