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USAF Plans Participation of Early CCA Production Aircraft In Emerald Flag

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USAF Plans Participation of Early CCA Production Aircraft In Emerald Flag
Pictured is U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Timothy Helfrich (right), portfolio acquisition executive for fighters and advanced aircraft, and Air Force Gen. Dale White, direct reporting portfolio manager for critical weapon systems, during Helfrich's promotion ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio on August 14.

The U.S. Air Force wants to use General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems, Inc.'s (GA-ASI) FQ-42A Vengeance and the Anduril Industries FQ-44A Fury in the Emerald Flag Exercise this December. Those aircraft are engineering and manufacturing development, early production Collaborative Combat Aircraft developed from the YFQ prototype versions. "We're gonna see both the FQ-42 and FQ-44 and different manned fighters in the mix," Air Force Brig. Gen. Timothy Helfrich, the program acquisition executive for fighters and advanced aircraft, said during a Mitchell Institute…

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