Loyal Wingman

2020: Announcement

In April, 2020 announced Boeing completion of development of the Loyal Wingman unmanned aerial vehicle which is intended for cover of fighting fighters.

The drone has length of 11 meters and scope of a wing 11.7 meters. The device will be able to execute flights on distance to 3.7 thousand kilometers, carrying additional arms or detection systems and observations.

Announced Boeing completion of development of the Loyal Wingman unmanned aerial vehicle which is intended for cover of fighting fighters

The artificial intelligence which will be implemented in the UAV will allow not only to program aircraft on accomplishment of any purposes, but also will help with preserving of distance between fighters.

Besides, the swarm of such devices can be used as the distributed antenna of the necessary geometry. Such composite antenna will have higher characteristics and can be used to collection of information or suppression of means of communication of the opponent.

About arms of the UAV there are no data yet. It is known that on it the REB systems, sensors for conducting investigation and observation will be installed.

Main goal of the Loyal Wingman project — development of rather cheap and reusable devices which loss will not lead to serious finance costs and death of pilots. Loyal Wingman became the largest pilotless aviation Boeing program, focused on international market.

Inspections of UAVs will be carried out on the proving space-rocket ground of Vumer in South Australia. According to the results of these tests of Boeing will have to finish devices.

During tests two devices capable to gather speed to 300 km/h were united in group. In air they made several simple maneuvers then they landed. In the nearest future developers intend to start expanded tests of group of UAVs for which management system is developed within the ATS project.^[1]

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