{"id":434943,"date":"2026-05-22T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-skunk-works-vectis-stealth-drone-fill-f-46-biggest-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:01:18","slug":"why-skunk-works-vectis-stealth-drone-could-fill-the-f-47s-biggest-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=434943","title":{"rendered":"Why Skunk Works&#8217; Vectis Stealth Drone Could Fill The F-47&#8217;s Biggest Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2053291\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-f-47-what-we-know-today\/\" >upcoming Boeing F-47 6th-generation fighter jet<\/a><\/span> is just the manned component of the Air Force&#8217;s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAG) program. The other part is the development of advanced loyal wingmen drones called Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA). Unlike previous-generation fighter jets, the F-47 is not being designed as a stand-alone fighter jet, but as a node or command center of a strike package that will include CCAs and other off-board platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The no-expenses-spared cutting-edge F-47 should theoretically have a comparable high-end CCA, even though Increment 1 CCAs appear lower-end.<\/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":[1258,396,12697,627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-collaborative-combat-aircraft","category-lockheed-martin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434943","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=434943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434948,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434943\/revisions\/434948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}