{"id":151477,"date":"2024-11-25T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-northrop-grumman-built-crewed-loyal-wingman-drone\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T18:00:14","slug":"why-has-northrop-grumman-built-a-crewed-loyal-wingman-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151477","title":{"rendered":"Why Has Northrop Grumman Built A Crewed Loyal Wingman Drone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 29, 2024, Scaled Composites (a subsidiary of             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258182\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/northrop-grumman\/\"  >Northrop Grumman<\/a><\/span>) drew the attention of many when it revealed it had successfully first flown its new advanced Model 437. Only this autonomous vehicle had a cockpit and a pilot. The remarkable success, affordability, and rapid development of autonomous drones coupled with the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> apparently having         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029246\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/usaf-ngad-not-f-22-raptor-replacement\/\" >second thoughts about the sixth-generation NGAD fighter<\/a><\/span>, raises questions about         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034219\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-fighter-jets-era-ending-with-f-35\/\" >whether the F-35 will be the US Air Force&#8217;s last manned fighter jet<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Model 435 Vanguard is being developed as an optionally manned platform likely to speed up development and add flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,12697,4160,567,915,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-collaborative-combat-aircraft","category-drones","category-guides","category-northrop-grumman","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151478,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151477\/revisions\/151478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}