{"id":74877,"date":"2024-06-28T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-xq-67-cca-drone-prototype-first-flight\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T18:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T08:29:03","slug":"us-air-force-xq-67-cca-drone-prototype-makes-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=74877","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force XQ-67 CCA Drone Prototype Makes First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            As another indication of how work on <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/general-atomics-xq-67-drone-us-air-force-collaborative-combat-aircraft\/\">the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) or loyal wingman drones<\/a> is progressing, on June 26, the Air Force released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/928717\/xq-67a-first-flight-video\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >first video<\/a> of the General Atomics XQ-67A&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/inaugural-flight\/\">inaugural flight<\/a>. While the video is new, the flight is not (that happened in February 2024). General Atomics has long been the prime defense contractor for building US military <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\">drones<\/a> (including the MQ-9 Reaper). Separately, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-mq-9a-reaper-drone-upgrade\/\">the Air Force was recently awarded a $174 million contract to General Atomics to upgrade<\/a> existing Reapers.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video has been released showing the inaugural flight of the XQ-67A, which seeks to become the futuristic loyal wingman drone.<\/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":[396,6388,567,681,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drone","category-guides","category-inaugural-flight","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877","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=74877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74892,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877\/revisions\/74892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}