>The second YFQ-42A has flown>Exactly one business day after the YFQ-44A first flew I think it might be over for Anduril's Fury bros. They put up a good fight as a meme competition to push down contact prices but they should stick to their cruise missiles and (frankly very important) SRMs.
Anduril is trash anyway. SV grifters are worse than Boeing and that's saying something.
They're both so far removed from a production decision, that one flying ~2 months before the other isn't really going to be a big deal to the air force decision makers.
>>64478306Everything I’ve heard about the program suggests it isn’t a winner take all kind of thing and they’ll very probably end up buying both so long as both companies show they can deliver the minimum viable product. The whole point of CCA Inc.1 is to spin up a bunch of relatively cheap semi disposable shit that poses just enough of a threat to eat up enemy air defense assets while supporting more expensive and capable platforms as they do their work. It’s why all the major primes got eliminated, they pitched more expensive and capable stuff that was good for more than shooting off a missile or two before probably eating one in return. Inc.2 probably sees more capable less disposable stuff since LockMart and Northrop Grumman have both recently been shown to be working on more capable drones with Vectis and Project Lotus. I would bet Kratos’ Thanatos drone that’s apparently been flying for a year is also intended for that program or something similar.
