Organization

General Atomics

San Diego energy and defence company working on nuclear energy, unmanned aircraft and electromagnetic sensors.

Description source: Wikipedia

Connections

Aircraft used in flight testMQ-9BSource

Coverage

3 November 2026

General Atomics discloses a large drone flying wing called NextGen

United States: the company says it is not a collaborative combat aircraft, but a much larger reconnaissance and strike wing with hybrid-electric propulsion.

Air & Space Forces Magazine
Photograph from the hartpunkt.de report

Collected 29 October 2026

Saab and General Atomics flight-test LoyalEye on MQ-9B

Sweden and the United States flight-tested early warning from a drone: Saab's LoyalEye radar, integrated on a General Atomics MQ-9B, detected, tracked and classified air targets in a flight over southern California, announced 28 October.

hartpunkt.de
Photograph from the breakingdefense.com report

Collected 23 October 2026

Germany drops direct MQ-28 purchase, Boeing says

Drone wingman: the Defence Ministry formally told Boeing it will not directly procure the MQ-28 Ghost Bat.

breakingdefense.com