Anduril’s YFQ-44A successfully completes first flight test
A shot of the YFQ-44A during its flight test. (Photo: Anduril)
The drone is the second prototype to take flight under the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme.
Anduril’s YFQ-44A ‘Fury’ Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) has completed its first flight for the US Air Force’s (USAF) CCA Increment 1 programme, the USAF announced on 31 October.
According to Anduril, the CCA conducted its first semi-autonomous flight from a California test location. All of its taxi and flight tests will continue to be semi-autonomous, the company added, under “an operator ‘on the loop’ but not in it”. Its YFQ-44A progressed from clean sheet design to first semi-autonomous flight in 556 days.
This CCA is the second to conduct flight testing after General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced its CCA’s
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