{"id":3213775,"date":"2026-06-30T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/navy-carrier-loyal-wingman-cca-drone-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:21:53","slug":"dron-cca-de-apoyo-de-portaaviones-de-la-armada-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/navy-carrier-loyal-wingman-cca-drone-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"El robot de apoyo de la Armada llegar\u00e1 al portaaviones."},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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The U.S. Navy is pressing ahead on a carrier-based &ldquo;loyal wingman&rdquo; &mdash; an uncrewed combat aircraft built to fly alongside crewed fighters, carry sensors and weapons, and go first into the places nobody wants to send a person.<\/p><p>It is still on the drawing board: four of America&rsquo;s biggest defense primes are working competing concepts. But the supporting evidence is already catapulting off flight decks. In April, the Navy&rsquo;s MQ-25A Stingray tanker drone made its first operational test flight &mdash; the clearest sign yet that robots are joining the carrier air wing for real.<\/p><p>The question is no longer whether the carrier gets unmanned aircraft. It is how many, how fast, and who builds the brains.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border:1px solid #d6e0ff;border-radius:8px;padding:16px 20px;margin:22px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#1a1a1a\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>What<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">A carrier-based Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) &mdash; an uncrewed &ldquo;loyal wingman&rdquo;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Designers<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Anduril, Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman (conceptual designs); Lockheed Martin on control architecture<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Autonomy<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Anduril, Shield AI and Collins Aerospace competing on the software<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Already flying<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">The MQ-25A Stingray tanker drone &mdash; first operational test flight, 27 April 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Fly with crewed jets; carry sensors and weapons; take higher-risk tasks<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:6px 14px 6px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Status<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:6px 0;color:#222\">Design phase, with momentum reported building through 2026<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Four primes, one deck<\/h2><p>In late 2025 the Navy put Anduril, Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman under contract for conceptual carrier-CCA designs, with Lockheed Martin working a common control architecture to tie the drones to the air wing. A separate competition &mdash; Anduril, Shield AI and Collins Aerospace &mdash; will decide whose autonomy software actually flies the things.<\/p><p>The Navy is not working in a vacuum. In June the Air Force picked General Atomics and Anduril to build its first 150 CCAs &mdash; the YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A &mdash; and the Navy is watching that template closely as it shapes a carrier-capable cousin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/anduril-yfq-44-fury-cca-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Anduril YFQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Anduril&rsquo;s YFQ-44A Fury, one of the U.S. Air Force&rsquo;s first loyal-wingman drones. The Navy&rsquo;s carrier-based version will be a close relative, hardened for catapults and arrested landings. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The tanker that proves it works<\/h2><p>If you want to know whether a big drone can live on a carrier, look at the MQ-25 Stingray. In 2021 the T1 test aircraft became the first unmanned aircraft in history to refuel another aircraft in flight, passing fuel to an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fa-18-hornet\">F\/A-18<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fa-18-super-hornet\">Super Hornet<\/a> and later to an E-2D Hawkeye and an <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\">F-35C<\/a>. On 27 April 2026, Boeing and the Navy flew the first <em>operational<\/em> MQ-25A &mdash; a major step toward putting the type to sea.<\/p><p>The Stingray is a tanker, not a fighter. But it cracks the hardest problem first: integrating a large, autonomous aircraft into the chaos of carrier flight operations. Solve that, and arming the next one is an engineering problem, not a leap of faith.<\/p><h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why the carrier needs robots<\/h2><p>The strategic logic is blunt. Long-range anti-ship missiles are pushing carriers farther from the fight, which shrinks the reach of a crewed air wing. Uncrewed wingmen extend that reach, absorb the riskiest missions, and add cheap mass &mdash; aircraft you can afford to lose. Whoever wins the autonomy contest supplies the judgment that lets one pilot command several drones at once.<\/p><p>The aircraft carrier has launched crewed jets for a century. 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