SYDNEY (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s MQ-28 Ghost Bat fighter-like drone is designed to be an open platform and a partnership with Lockheed Martin Corp on F-35 fighter planes would be “great news”, the company’s defence division head said on Tuesday.
“If the F-35 is going to be its partner that is great news for me … it is designed to do exactly that,” Boeing Defense, Space and Security Chief Executive Ted Colbert told reporters on the sidelines of the Australia International Airshow.
Boeing is developing the MQ-28 Ghost Bat fighter-like drone in Australia alongside the Royal Australian Air Force, in what is the country’s first homegrown combat aircraft to be manufactured in more than 50 years.
(Reporting by Jamie Freed and Renju Jose; Editing by Tom Hogue)
