:

Air Force

General Atomics Delivers FQ-42 CCA To Creech AFB For Flight Testing

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, September 21st, 2026

SHARE:

General Atomics Delivers FQ-42 CCA To Creech AFB For Flight Testing

General Atomics' FQ-42 Vengeance Collaborative Combat Aircraft out in front of an F-35 fighter, center, and F-15, foreground. Photo: General Atomics

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) on Monday said it has delivered a new unmanned FQ-42 Vengeance aircraft to Creech AFB, Nev., for use by test and evaluation units. The Sept. 18 delivery to Creech is the first for GA-ASI’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). Anduril Industries’ FQ-44 Fury CCA has flown previously at Creech with the Air Force Air Combat Command’s Experimental Operations Unit (Defense Daily, Aug. 18). The stealthy FQ-42 has conducted formation flights with the Air Force’s F-35…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]