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Project Mosquito: UK’s ‘Loyal Wingman’ Program Moves Ahead

The UK’s defense laboratory is overseeing a project to develop unmanned vehicles to partner with manned combat aircraft.

LANCA air vehicles could significantly increase “combat mass” by undertaking networked, coordinated missions with manned aircraft such as the F-35. (Image: Dstl)

By David Donald • Contributor - UK

July 17, 2020

This summer the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has completed the initial one-year phase of Project Mosquito, a program to develop a flyable technology demonstrator of an unmanned air vehicle that could provide “additive capability” to manned combat aircraft. The aim is to reduce the costs of adding combat mass to the RAF's manned fleet to roughly one-tenth those of manned platforms.

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