Northrop Grumman to Fly New, Improved CCA Offering Next Year

Northrop Grumman to fly new, improved CCA offering next year

The company spent 15 months redesigning and building a robot wingman after losing its initial bid for the U.S. Air Force’s collaborative combat aircraft...

Project Talon: Northrop unveils new loyal wingman drone design

“The idea was to see if we could build an aircraft that had all the same capability of our original offering [for the Air Force’s CCA program], and do it faster,” said Tom Jones, Northrop’s head of aeronautic systems.

Northrop reveals Project Talon, a rapid-build, lower-cost combat drone

Northrop Grumman has introduced a new uncrewed combat aircraft called Project Talon, presenting the aircraft as an autonomous combat drone designed from the outset to be built far faster and at a much lower cost than previous concepts. Developed with subsidiary Scaled Composites, Talon reflects a deliberate shift in Northrop’s strategy for the US Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft initiative, emphasizing manufacturability and affordabilit…

Northrop Grumman Unveils Project Talon CCA

Project Talon is an evolution of Northrop Grumman’s proposed design for the U.S. Air Force’s CCA Increment One program, addressing affordability and cost shortcomings. Northrop Grumman has formally unveiled “Project Talon,” a new autonomous aircraft demonstrator built to validate faster and more affordable manufacturing methods for large uncrewed platforms. The aircraft, developed largely in secrecy […]