'Fighter Drone' Designations Officially Assigned To Collaborative Combat Aircraft By USAF

The U.S. Air Force has designated the drones that General Atomics and Anduril are currently developing as part of the first phase, or Increment 1, of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program as the YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A, respectively.
These appear to be the U.S. military’s first ever ‘fighter drone’ designations...

• In the U.S. military-wide designation system for aircraft and missiles, “F” stands for “fighter” and “Q” stands for drone. The “Y” at the front indicates a prototype design...

A picture shown during Gen. Allvin’s keynote of a model of General Atomics’ CCA design with the YFQ-42A designation. USAF

A picture of a model of Anduril CCA design along with the YFQ-44A designation that also accompanied Allvin’s keynote. USAF