FQ-44 Fury

The Anduril FQ-44 Fury is an American unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) developed by Anduril Industries as one of the two winning designs of Increment I of the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. It is intended to augment crewed fighters such as the F-15EX Eagle II, F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and the planned Boeing F-47 in air-to-air missions through manned-unmanned teaming, providing the Air Force with "affordable mass": an aircraft cheap enough that commanders can accept greater risk with it, without being considered expendable.

Development

The design originated at Blue Force Technologies as a high-performance aggressor platform, known successively as Grackle, REDmedium and finally Fury, before the company was acquired by Anduril in 2023 and the aircraft was adapted for the CCA competition. The Fury is a fighter-like UCAV roughly half the size of an F-16, with swept trapezoidal wings, a chin-mounted air intake, a cruciform tail and external weapons stations. Powered by a single Williams FJ44-4M turbofan, it is designed to reach Mach 0.95 and 50,000 feet, pull up to 9 g, and carry two AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles.

The prototype was formally designated YFQ-44A in 2025 - the first "fighter drone" designation series in U.S. Air Force history alongside the General Atomics YFQ-42A - and made its first flight on 31 October 2025. In June 2026 the Air Force selected both aircraft for initial production, with a combined 150 FQ-44s and FQ-42s planned by 2030.