USAF pursues $10M modular MQ-9 Reaper successor (MMA) amid attrition concerns

The U.S. Air Force is accelerating the Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program to field a lower-cost (~$10M air vehicle) MQ-9A-like ISR/strike drone with modular, open-architecture mission systems. The novelty is the explicit shift toward an attritable, mass-producible MALE platform with defined performance targets and modularity to rapidly integrate new payloads, driven by recent Reaper losses.