SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / February 23, 2026 / General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is giving its U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft a new name: YFQ-42A Dark Merlin.
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Loyal wingman drones are reshaping fighter tactics as Air Force tests autonomy
The U.S. Air Force’s effort to pair autonomous drones with manned fighter jets reached a concrete milestone when the YFQ-42A prototype completed flight testing designed to validate airworthiness, ...
One of the US Air Force's first official combat drones has taken to the air after only a year of building and development. General Atomics's YFQ-42A is currently undergoing flight testing in ...
American defense contractor General Atomics has been at it making drones for almost 20 years already, but it is only now stepping into the brave new world of autonomy, hoping to impress the military ...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is now flying a second example of the company’s YFQ-42A prototype jet. Photos released by General Atomics on 3 November show what appears to be two fully capable ...
GA-ASI has named its YFQ-42 Collaborative Combat Aircraft as Dark Merlin, a small, fierce falcon species which hunts other falcons while collaborating in groups. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems ...
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / March 3, 2025 / General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) welcomes the U.S. Air Force's designation for its Collaborative Combat Aircraft: the new ...
GA-ASI's YFQ-42A Platform to Support Next-Generation Expeditionary Air Operations SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS ...
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / August 27, 2025 / The YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft, designed and developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), is now conducting ...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) was one of two companies, along with Anduril Industries, to be awarded a contract last year to continue developing the “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...
The U.S. Marine Corps is preparing to plug an experimental “digital brain” into its YFQ‑42A wingman drone, turning an Avenger‑based airframe into a testbed for advanced autonomy. Backed by money in ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has officially designated its first uncrewed fighter prototypes the YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in Denver, Colorado, ...
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