Product profile
MQ-28 Ghost Bat
MQ-28 Ghost Bat is Boeing Australia's uncrewed autonomous collaborative combat aircraft, designed to operate as a teaming platform alongside crewed aircraf...
Facts
- Company
- Boeing
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- autonomous_collaborative_operations
- Website
- https://www.boeing.com/defense/autonomous-and-unmanned-systems/mq-28-ghost-bat
About MQ-28 Ghost Bat
MQ-28 Ghost Bat is Boeing Australia's uncrewed autonomous collaborative combat aircraft, designed to operate as a teaming platform alongside crewed aircraft and carry mission payloads.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous collaborative combat aircraft
Core: Uncrewed crewed-teaming aircraft
Function: Performs autonomous airborne missions and extends crewed aircraft with distributed sensing and payload capacity
Audience: Air forces and defense mission-system teams
Specifications
- aircraft_class
- Uncrewed autonomous collaborative combat aircraft
- mission_role
- Autonomous airborne missions with modular mission payloads
- operating_concept
- Collaborative crewed-uncrewed teaming
Operations
- Environment
- defense_mission, air_operations
- Primary user
- air_forces, defense_organizations, mission_system_integrators
- Role
- autonomous_collaborative_operations, airborne_surveillance, mission_payload_delivery, crew_teaming
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, human_machine_teaming, remote_supervision, payload_integration
- Mobility class
- fixed_wing_uav, jet_uncrewed_aircraft
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Archer agrees to acquire Boeing’s Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid subsidiaries — 2026-08-10
- U.S. Navy clears Boeing MQ-25A Stingray for low-rate initial production — 2026-05-19
- Rheinmetall and Boeing establish German MQ-28 integration partnership — 2026-03-31
- MQ-25 T1 conducts first unmanned aerial refueling with Navy F/A-18 — 2021-06-04
- Kitty Hawk and Boeing partner on urban air mobility — 2019-06-25
- U.S. Navy awards Boeing $805.3M MQ-25A Stingray design-build contract — 2018-08-30