It’s official: The U.S. Air Force has a bat drone. Not a swarm of tiny drones disguised as bats but rather a new combat airframe. Specifically, it’s the MQ-28 Ghost Bat from Boeing’s Australian arm.

The Collaborative Combat Aircraft operated for the first time outside of the Woomera Training Area during Exercise Carlsbad in April 2025 at RAAF Tindal, which hosts F-35A and MQ-4C units. Early in ...

AI software is sure to change the world, for better or for worse is to be determined. The way we work, the way we surf the Internet, the way we shop on Amazon, and so many other facets of our lives ...

Back in 2020, Boeing let the world know it is working on a new combat drone, one that is powered by an artificial intelligence system, and would be capable of working alongside crewed aircraft. It was ...

The U.S. Air Force is in preliminary discussions with Boeing to potentially purchase the Australian MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone. The drone is intended to team with the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ...

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Boeing has released a picture showing an MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a "loyal wingman" type drone designed by its Australian subsidiary, alongside its demonstrator for the MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone that it is ...

We're way past the moment when autonomous military drones showed promise but didn't really have tangible results to be proud of. That is rapidly changing, and the world is only now beginning to get a ...

Boeing is constructing a new 97,000-square-foot production facility in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. This facility will manufacture the MQ-28 Ghost Bat combat drone, and is expected to be ...

In collaboration with the Royal Australian Air Force, Boeing's MQ-28 GHOST BAT launched its first AIM-120 air to air missile at a drone. But did the Turkish Red Apple (Bayraktar Kızılelma) beat them ...