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Beale AFB to Be Deployment Center for CCA, As USAF Begins Ground Tests

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, May 1st, 2025

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Beale AFB to Be Deployment Center for CCA, As USAF Begins Ground Tests

An Anduril YFQ-44A production representative test vehicle "is staged in a testing chamber at Costa Mesa, Calif.," the U.S. Air Force said (Anduril Photo)

Beale AFB, Calif.--the home of the U-2 surveillance plane--is to house the Aircraft Readiness Unit (ARU) for U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) to allow them to deploy quickly, and the two CCA prototypes have begun ground testing of their propulsion, avionics, autonomy and ground control, the Air Force said on Thursday. A year ago, the Air Force decided to narrow the CCA Increment 1 field to General Atomics and Anduril Industries, and the service has said it plans…

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