What happens when a fighter no longer goes to work alone? The answer is beginning to reshape the logic of air combat. “Loyal wingman” drones, now formalized in U.S. Air Force terminology as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The advent of military technology is rapidly giving rise to new and much more dangerous weapons systems. The loyal wingman ...

Modern military drones are moving beyond surveillance into manned-unmanned teaming, where autonomous aircraft support fighters with reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and high-risk missions. Boeing’s ...

A Boeing MQ-28A Ghost Bat on the tarmac as an F-35A Lightning II taxis during Exercise ‘Carlsbad' at RAAF Base Tindal in April 2025. (LAC Ryan Howell/Commonwealth of Australia ) The Australian ...

A lack of suitable European-built small turbofan engines for ‘loyal wingman’ applications that are also free of export restrictions has pushed the EU to consider funding the development of a new ...

Adapting “loyal wingman” drones to helicopters is a fundamentally different challenge than adopting them to planes, as helicopters are far slower and operate at significantly lower altitudes. The ...