Japan Advances MUM-T With Scaled CCA Formation Trials

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Chen Chuanren
November 24, 2025

ATLA video footage showed Subaru CCA demonstrators preparing for a five-ship formation.

Credit: Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency

SINGAPORE—Japan’s Defense Ministry has completed a series of proof-of-concept flights involving multiple scaled collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) and crewed–uncrewed teaming (known as MUM-T) from a helicopter. Video footage from Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) shows the…

Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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