WASHINGTON — The US Air Force is pursuing Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that will fly alongside military jets, but it’s not alone in thinking these loyal wingman systems could be the future of airpower. The US Navy has the same idea, as do partner nations like Australia and the United Kingdom — and adversarial ones like China and Russia.
As part of our CCA video series, Breaking Defense assembled a panel featuring Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta, reporters Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna, and Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security think tank to discuss the global picture for CCA-like systems.
For more from this series, check out the videos below:
