{"id":8153602,"date":"2026-07-31T08:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/fq-42a-fq-44a-cca-serial-production-arsenal-1-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:52:35","slug":"fq-42a-fq-44a-cca-serial-production-arsenal-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/it\/fq-42a-fq-44a-cca-serial-production-arsenal-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s First Fighter Drones Roll Off the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style><p>A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two \"fighter drones\" for production. This week, the factories actually started building them \u2014 and one of them dropped a letter from its name.<\/p><p>On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off Anduril's brand-new Arsenal-1 production line. A day later, General Atomics announced that its own contender, the FQ-42A Dark Merlin, is now in \"full-scale manufacturing.\" The prototypes were designated YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A \u2014 the Y marking them as experimental. Now they are the FQ-42A and FQ-44A. America has robot fighters coming off assembly lines.<\/p><p>These are Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA): semi-autonomous \"loyal wingmen\" designed to fly alongside crewed F-35s, F-22s and the future F-47 \u2014 at a target price of under $30 million each, roughly a third of what an F-35A costs.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#222\">Informazioni rapide<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Programma<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), Increment 1<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Aeromobili<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">FQ-42A Dark Merlin (General Atomics), FQ-44A Fury (Anduril)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Pietra miliare<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">First Fury off the line 27 July; FQ-42A in full-scale manufacturing 28 July<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Factory<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Anduril Arsenal-1, Pickaway County, Ohio<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Line capacity<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Up to 150 Fury aircraft per year<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Target cost<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Under $30M each (~1\/3 of an F-35A)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 10px 5px 0;color:#666;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Ruolo<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0\">Loyal wingman for crewed fighters; human retains weapons control<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From prototype to production line<\/h2><p>The pace is the story. Anduril announced Arsenal-1 in Pickaway County in January 2025; 557 days later, the first Fury was complete \u2014 production having actually begun in March, three months ahead of schedule. In an industry where a new aircraft factory usually takes three to five years to reach first delivery, Anduril and Ohio did it in under two.<\/p><p>In June, the Air Force selected both the Fury and General Atomics' Dark Merlin for initial production, with a combined 150-plus aircraft to be delivered by 2030. The July milestones turn that decision into metal.<\/p>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1894861863  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:D1Cv.c8a8\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/yfq-44-fury-anduril.jpg\" alt=\"Anduril YFQ-44A Fury\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Anduril's Fury, now designated FQ-44A in production form. Its Arsenal-1 line in Ohio is built to turn out up to 150 a year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What these things actually are<\/h2><p>A CCA is not a Reaper. It is a jet-powered, fighter-shaped drone meant to fly into contested airspace carrying sensors, weapons or electronic-warfare gear, taking cues from a nearby crewed fighter. The YFQ-44A has already fired an AIM-120 air-to-air missile in testing, and both types have flown out of Creech Air Force Base. Crucially, the aircraft do not choose their own targets \u2014 a human operator retains command and the authority to employ weapons.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;Arsenal-1 was an ambitious commitment to build faster, create thousands of jobs, and strengthen America's defense. Today's milestone shows Anduril and Ohio are delivering.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>J.P. Nauseef<\/strong> &mdash; President & CEO, JobsOhio<\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Perch\u00e9 \u00e8 importante<\/h2><p>The whole point of the CCA program is \"affordable mass\" \u2014 the idea that a large number of cheap, semi-autonomous jets is more survivable and more useful in a big war than a small fleet of exquisite, irreplaceable ones. That only works if you can actually build them fast and cheap. A purpose-built megafactory rolling out its first aircraft ahead of schedule is exactly the proof of concept the Air Force wanted to see.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vhczBn2Yu-8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>Two years ago, robot wingmen were briefing slides. This week, one rolled out of an Ohio factory under its own production designation. The age of the mass-produced fighter drone has, quietly, begun.<\/p><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin-top:24px\">Sources: JobsOhio; The Aviationist; TWZ; Military Times; Breaking Defense.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Post correlati<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/air-force-cca-fq-42a-fq-44a-production-contracts\/\">America's Robot Fighters Cleared for Mass Production<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/yfq-44a-fury-cca-first-aim-120-missile-2026\/\">Il robot assistente americano lancia il suo primo missile<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, the U.S. Air Force cleared its first two &#8220;fighter drones&#8221; for production. This week, the factories actually started building them \u2014 and one of them dropped a letter from its name. On 27 July 2026, the first Ohio-built Fury rolled off Anduril&#8217;s brand-new Arsenal-1 production line. 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