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The loyal wingman drones designed to support F-47 operations

The loyal wingman drones designed to support F-47 operations ...
New Atlas

Loyal Wingman combat drone makes first flight

Boeing's Loyal Wingman combat drone has completed its first flight in the skies over the Woomera Range Complex in Australia. The successful flight was followed by the announcement that the Australian ...
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First-Ever Loyal Wingman Drone to Shoot Down a Target on Its Own Is Now Officially Stealth

The drone is powered by a single Williams FJ44 engine, and can fly at speeds of just under Mach 1 (767 mph/1,234 kph) while climbing as high as 40,000 feet (12,192 meters). It can be sent on missions ...
New Atlas

Boeing presents first Loyal Wingman combat drone prototype to RAAF

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received the first of three Loyal Wingman aircraft prototypes from Boeing. The unmanned combat drone being built by a Boeing-led Australian industry team for ...
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Boeing’s Loyal Wingman AI Drone Takes to the Sky for the First Time

Australia is not exactly the place people usually associate with aircraft making, and for a good reason. Over the past half a century, not a single military aircraft was designed there. That changed ...

Why Germany is quietly buying 15 more F-35s & asking to join a fighter program it once rivaled

Following the collapse of FCAS with France, Germany is now considering its GCAP, Saab, Spanish, and 6th-gen-less combat drone ...

Leonardo, Baykar tout in-flight control of Kizilelma drone from a M-346 jet trainer

Following an autonomous taxi and take-off, the Kizilelma autonomously linked to the M-346 using “an advanced radio frequency ...
CNET

Loyal Wingman drone makes its first flight

The first military aircraft designed and made in Australia in over 50 years is meant to aid piloted aircraft. But for now this wingman is flying solo. Andy Altman covered all things science and tech.