Overview
- The variant debuted at the Defence IQ International Fighter conference in Rome as the newest member of the Gambit collaborative combat aircraft family.
- Optimized for suppression of enemy air defenses, electronic attack and deep precision strike, it adds a signature-reducing internal weapons bay and a modular architecture to integrate autonomy, sensors and weapons.
- A shared core of landing gear, baseline avionics and chassis—described by GA-ASI as roughly 70% of aircraft cost—underpins faster, lower-cost development across Gambit variants.
- GA-ASI is building European industry partnerships intended to provide sovereign supply chains for future missionized versions.
- Recent family progress includes August flights of the air-to-air Gambit 2/YFQ-42A, which has flown multiple times and is competing in the U.S. Air Force CCA program alongside Anduril’s YFQ-44A.