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USAF FQ-42 Vengeance CCA and GA Wildfire modular drone updates

The post describes General Atomics' newly-named FQ-42 Vengeance Collaborative Combat Aircraft and the separate Wildfire platform aimed at a lower-cost, massed modular aircraft concept potentially succeeding the MQ-9. While not a frontline combat report, it signals accelerating procurement and maturation of loyal-wingman style unmanned combat aircraft and modular attritable UAV concepts that could change airpower employment.

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MQ-9 Reaper
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doctrine-change2026-09-16USAF CCA program update: plans to buy 500 CCAs by 2032; General Atomics discusses FQ-42 Vengeance and Wildfire
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