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Farnborough 2026 highlighted five of the most important Collaborative Combat Aircraft currently shaping the future of military aviation: the FQ-42A Dark Merlin, BAE Systems Brontanax, Airbus U760 Ravenstorm, Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat and Anduril FQ-44A Fury.
This video compares their development status, announced performance, mission profiles and operational potential, from air-to-air combat and electronic warfare to strike, reconnaissance and support for crewed fighters. It also examines the different industrial strategies behind these programmes, including sovereign European development, US mass production, modular software architectures and Australia’s operational experimentation with the Ghost Bat.
Beyond speed and range, the analysis explores why autonomy, resilient communications, maintenance, rearming time and production capacity could determine which CCA concepts become genuinely effective combat systems. These aircraft are not simply replacing fighters. They are helping create a distributed air combat architecture connecting crewed aircraft, autonomous platforms, sensors and weapons.
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