THE AIR FORCE IS NOW FLYING ITS AI WINGMAN Anduril delivered its first production FQ-44 Fury Collaborative Combat Aircraft to the U.S. Air Force last month. Now Air Force operators are flying the aircraft themselves. That transition matters more than the delivery ceremony. Fury is moving beyond contractor-controlled testing and into the hands of the personnel expected to employ it. The autonomous aircraft is designed to fly alongside F-22s, F-35s and the future F-47, extending their sensors, weapons capacity and combat reach without placing another pilot in danger. The larger breakthrough is speed. The Air Force moved the CCA program from competitive development into production in just over two years and plans to acquire more than 150 combat-capable aircraft by the end of the decade. Decode Conflict Assessment America is no longer merely experimenting with autonomous combat aviation. It is training operational forces to use it. The future fighter formation will not be one pilot controlling one aircraft. It will be one human commanding a team of intelligent machines. | Decode Conflict Space and Military Analysis