Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Korean Collaborative Combat Aircraft Make International Debut
Korea Aerospace Industries displaying models of two CCA designs at Singapore Airshow
UCCA
The MUCCA is a large CCA that can launch smaller SUCA vehicles. © David McIntosh/AIN

Korea Aerospace Industries has been developing an autonomous air vehicle capability for some time and has recently unveiled two collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) intended to act as “loyal wingmen,” or adjunct platforms, to crewed fighters. They were first shown at the ADEX show in Seoul in October and are making their international debut in Singapore.

Known as the Small Unmanned Collaborative Aircraft (SUCA) and Medium Unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft (MUCCA), they are, respectively, an air- or ground-launched expendable 330-pound vehicle and a runway-launched reusable 11,950-pound pilotless aircraft.