The General Atomics FQ-42 Vengeance is an unmanned fighter with loyal wingman abilities, being developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems for the United States Air Force. It is one of the two winning designs for Increment I of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, alongside the Anduril FQ-44, and it grew out of the XQ-67A Off-Board Sensing Station demonstrator. The configuration has an elongated fuselage, slender wings, V-tails, a dorsal inlet, a single engine and an internal weapons bay for two AIM-120 missiles. The YFQ-42A prototype began flight testing in August 2025, and in September 2026 the production aircraft was named Vengeance. A prototype crashed in April 2026, and testing resumed in May.
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is an unmanned fighter aircraft with loyal wingman capabilities, currently under development by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
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one of the winning designs for Increment I of the United States Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program
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is an unmanned fighter aircraft with loyal wingman capabilities, currently under development by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
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On 27 August 2025, the United States Air Force and General Atomics announced the YFQ-42A had begun its flight testing.
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is an unmanned fighter aircraft with loyal wingman capabilities, currently under development by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
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is an unmanned fighter aircraft with loyal wingman capabilities, currently under development by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
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one of the winning designs for Increment I of the United States Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program
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is an unmanned fighter aircraft with loyal wingman capabilities, currently under development by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
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derived from the company's XQ-67A Off-Board Sensing Station demonstrator
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