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Brontanax Unveiled UK’s First Autonomous Combat Aircraft Farnborough

BAE Systems unveiled Brontanax, the UK's first uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft, at Farnborough to extend combat mass by operating alongside crewed Typhoons and backed the StormFighter programme with £300 million of government support. The project targets test flights soon and RAF integration by the end of the decade, emphasizing a modular, open-architecture platform designed to adapt to evolving threats.