{"id":47353,"date":"2025-07-14T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=47353"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:47:27","slug":"australian-mq-28-now-also-for-the-u-s-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/australische-mq-28-jetzt-auch-fuer-die-u-s-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian MQ-28 now also for the U.S. Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"559\">The at <strong data-start=\"169\" data-end=\"197\">Boeing Defence Australia<\/strong> developed in the state of Queensland <strong data-start=\"236\" data-end=\"255\">MQ-28 Ghost Bat<\/strong> (in German: <em data-start=\"269\" data-end=\"292\">Ghost bat<\/em>) is an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) that was developed in close cooperation with the Australian Air Force. The drone is designed for <strong data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"450\">autonomous use<\/strong> and is to be used in future as a so-called <strong data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"514\">\"Loyal Wingman\"<\/strong>operate together with manned fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"808\">Following successful flight tests in 2023 - including in the USA - the US Air Force and the <strong data-start=\"677\" data-end=\"688\">US Navy<\/strong> has expressed interest in the MQ-28. In the future, the stealth drone could even be used by <strong data-start=\"766\" data-end=\"800\">deployed from aircraft carriers<\/strong> become.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"1119\">The centrepiece of the Ghost Bat is a specially developed, <strong data-start=\"865\" data-end=\"895\">AI-supported control system<\/strong>which enables fully autonomous flying. The drone has modular systems: <strong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1009\">Sensors in the nose<\/strong> and the <strong data-start=\"1020\" data-end=\"1062\">Weapons loading in an internal bay<\/strong> can be exchanged and customised for specific missions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1489\">The MQ-28 is currently still undergoing intensive testing. However, Australia is planning to have it ready by the end of 2025, <strong data-start=\"1223\" data-end=\"1241\">ten copies<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1260\" data-end=\"1284\">operationally<\/strong>. At the same time, the drone's AI is being further developed so that it can act as an intelligent wingman with the <strong data-start=\"1382\" data-end=\"1406\">Boeing E-7 Wedgetail<\/strong> (based on the Boeing 737) and the <strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1466\">F-35A Lightning II<\/strong>can work together.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1491\" data-end=\"1822\">Particularly noteworthy: The Ghost Bat is the <strong data-start=\"1538\" data-end=\"1570\">first military aircraft<\/strong>which has been <strong data-start=\"1586\" data-end=\"1637\">was developed in Australia 50 years ago<\/strong>. The name refers to the bats native to Australia, which are pack hunters - fitting for the future role of the drone in combination with manned aircraft.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die bei Boeing Defence Australia im Bundesstaat Queensland entwickelte MQ-28 Ghost Bat (zu Deutsch: Gespenster-Fledermaus) ist ein unbemanntes Kampfflugzeug (UCAV), das in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der australischen Luftwaffe entstand. Die Drohne ist f\u00fcr den autonomen Einsatz konzipiert und soll k\u00fcnftig als sogenannter \u201eLoyal Wingman\u201cgemeinsam mit bemannten Kampfjets operieren. Nach erfolgreichen Flugtests im Jahr 2023 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[10080,112,846,10081,10082,10083,10084,394],"class_list":["post-47353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-boeing-defence-australia","tag-flugzeugtraeger","tag-ki","tag-loyal-wingman","tag-luftwaffe-drohne","tag-mq-28-ghost-bat","tag-stealth-drohne","tag-us-navy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49023,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47353\/revisions\/49023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}