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==Development==
The Ghost Bat is an [[unmanned aircraft]], with a current planned introduction date in 2024-25,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |last=Newdick |first=Thomas |date=2022-08-24 |title=USAF Eyeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat For Next Gen Air Dominance Program |url=https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/usaf-might-buy-mq-28-ghost-bats-for-next-gen-air-dominance-program |access-date=2022-08-27 |website=The Drive |language=en}}</ref> which incorporates [[artificial intelligence]] and utilises a modular mission package system in the nose where the entire nose of the aircraft can be removed and quickly swapped for another nose with a different set of equipment or armaments for various missions including combat, force reconnaissance and electronic warfare.<ref name=":0" /> One role will be to support and protect manned [[Royal Australian Air Force]] (RAAF) aircraft, such as the [[Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II|F-35A]], [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet|F/A-18F]], [[Boeing 737 AEW&C|E-7A]],
The aircraft will be the first combat aircraft designed and developed in Australia in over half a century.<ref name=abc1>{{cite news |last1=Greene |first1=Andrew |title=First glimpse of combat drone set to join Australia's military arsenal |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/combat-drone-secretly-developed-by-raaf-and-boeing-unveiled/10851000 |work=ABC News |date=27 February 2019 |language=en-AU}}</ref> In February 2019, Boeing said that it will "depend on the market" whether the aircraft is manufactured in [[Queensland]] or the United States.<ref name=dn1/> On 21 September 2021, [[Boeing Australia]] unveiled the launch of a new manufacturing facility for its Loyal Wingman unmanned aircraft at [[Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport|Wellcamp Airport]] in [[Toowoomba]], Queensland.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dowling|first=Hannah|date=22 September 2021|title="World First: Wellcamp to host Loyal Wingman manufacturing facility"|url=https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/09/world-first-wellcamp-to-host-loyal-wingman-manufacturing-facility/|url-status=live|website=Australian Aviation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922134240/https://australianaviation.com.au/2021/09/world-first-wellcamp-to-host-loyal-wingman-manufacturing-facility/ |archive-date=22 September 2021 }}</ref>
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