WASHINGTON — When talking about aircraft, it’s easy to focus on the main body of the plane itself. But in many cases, it’s the subsystems that make a capability reach its full potential.
That’s true for drones as well as manned jets, meaning whether the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program is ultimately a success will come down, in part, to the engine, weapons, sensors and communications gear that are on board.
In the final video from our CCA roundtable discussion, our panel — Editor-in-Chief Aaron Mehta, reporters Michael Marrow and Valerie Insinna, and Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security think tank — go into the development of those systems, where the technology is at and the pros and cons of different capabilities that can be strapped onto a CCA.
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