The UK’s MoD has invited seven firms to propose their designs for Project NYX, which will give the AH-64 Apache an unmanned loyal wingman. The U.K.

The seven companies, which were selected after an initial pre-qualification phase, are Anduril (which has partnered with GKN Aerospace for this project), BAE Systems, Leonardo, Lockheed Martin UK, ...

Anduril UK will work with GKN Aerospace on a proposal for Project NYX, the development of a new UAV designed to work in tandem with AH-64E Apache helicopters. Project NYX, which sets out the process ...

Over the past few years, a new term started gaining traction in the military world: loyal wingman. It's a term that describes one kind or another of autonomous drones that can fly alongside crewed ...

Northrop Grumman's Talon Project is something of a late comer. After losing its initial CCA competition bid, the company launched Project Lotus, which is now trying for the CCA program as Project ...

Anduril’s robot wingman has notched its first flight Friday, more than a month after the neoprime defense contractor blamed software woes and a push to make the inaugural takeoff semi-autonomous for ...

A secret aircraft has been built inside the Scaled Composites facility in Mojave, California. Credit: Google Maps Northrop Grumman has secretly built a large new uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), dubbed ...

The UK Royal Navy (RN) hopes to perform a demonstration next year from one of its two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers of an attritable ‘loyal wingman’-type drone ultimately capable of ...

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 – a policy manual for “the next conservative President” that was produced by the Heritage Foundation and written ...

Autonomous drones, AI-driven combat systems, and loyal wingman concepts are converging under the Skyborg program. We break down how this initiative could reshape air warfare, from unmanned combat ...

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025, has returned to the public eye with another initiative: Project Esther. Described as a "national strategy to combat ...