Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Boeing’s Ghost Bat Readies for Interoperability Trials
The MQ-28A has been developed for the RAAF’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program
Boeing MQ28
Boeing Australia has built eight Block 1 MQ-28A Ghost Bats for initial air vehicle and mission system trials.

By September, Boeing Australia hopes to have demonstrated how its MQ-28A Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) can fit into a force mix. The uncrewed airplane will employ autonomous behavior to team with crewed assets such as F/A-18s, EA-18Gs, F-35As, and the E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft. As of late last year, the CCA had proven its abilities to establish communications links with other aerial assets as well as fuse and share data from sensors and payloads.

The “loyal wingman” was developed to answer a Royal Australian Air Force requirement, and the first air vehicle flew for the first time in February 2021. Eight Block 1 MQ-28As have been built and have racked up more than 100 hours of flight testing, conducted from the Woomera range in South Australia.

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