The Air Force is looking for a single airframe on which to build its Collaborative Combat Aircraft concept, with interchangeable, modular elements, service Secretary Frank Kendall said March 15. And while he has set 1,000 as the “planning number” for the new class of combat aircraft, the true requirement could be twice that, he said.
The CCA the Air Force has in mind would have “a common chassis, a common airframe” with modular mission equipment “optimized against the threat that you expect to face,” Kendall told reporters after his March 15 speech at the annual McAleese defense conference.
The Air Force will work to hold the cost of CCAs to “a fraction” of the cost of an F-35, Kendall said, but he said it’s premature to estimate what that will be. He has previously said a CCA might come in at half the cost of an F-35, which in the last contract cost the Air Force about $80 million per copy.
L'usaf demande six milliards de dollars pour le dévellopement du cca
L'évolution des budgets suivant l'année
The CCA spending plan begins with $392.2 million in fiscal year 2024. It rises to $513.8 million in FY 2025, but takes an unexplained dip to $245.9 million in 2026. After that, though, it more than sextuples to $1.64 billion in 2027, then nearly doubles again to $3.03 billion in 2028.
L'idée est de produire un ailier robotisé qui serait asservi au F-35 et au futur NGAD
The CCA figure is in line with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s assertion at the AFA Warfare Symposium in early March that “very, very significant” funding is being requested for the program, which will produce robotic wingmen to crewed fighters
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said his service is aiming for its future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) drones that will fight alongside crewed aircraft to each cost as little as a quarter of the current price of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Re: cca news le remplaçant du F-16
Publié : lun. avr. 29, 2024 7:20 pm
par warbird2000
Un contrat a été signé par l'usaf pour développer un premier proto de cac ( un ailier intelligent ).
Ce sont les firmes Anduril et General Atomics qui ont été choisies
Les firmes perdantes sont Boeing, Lockheed Martin, et Northrop Grumman.
Alors chaque firme va proposer un appareil séparé et en 2026, l'usaf choisira un vainqueur
L'usaf pourrait acquérir entre 1000 et 2000 de ces appareils
