Five key technologies to make attritable aircraft practical and cost effective

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Digital engineering will be key to balancing the cost and capability of attritable aircraft, before building prototypes and flight testing, says Shane Arnott, director of Boeing Australia's Airpower Teaming System programme, "For example, through application of digital engineering, Boeing Australia has a digital twin of the entire Boeing Airpower Teaming System aircraft design that we've been able to 'fly' thousands of times under different scenarios to test aircraft performance, the mission system and many other components necessary for capable attritable aircraft," he says.