Northrop Grumman's "Project Talon" Fighter Drone now designated the YFQ-48A

The U.S. Air Force has formally designated Northrop Grumman’s Project Talon drone as the YFQ-48A and described it as a “strong contender” to be part of its future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) fleets. This follows news that the service has handed contracts to nine companies to refine a wide array of designs under Increment 2 of its CCA program. Northrop Grumman, together with its subsidiary Scaled Composites, only lifted the lid on Project Talon earlier this month. Project Talon is only the third recipient of the new YFQ designation. The other two belong to the General Atomics YFQ-42A and the Anduril YFQ-44A, which were the winners of the Increment 1 phase of the CCA program.

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