A group of highly intelligent UAVs, like "bodyguards with knives", are accompanied by manned fighters to provide them with intelligence, information and firepower support. This avant-garde weapon system called "loyal wingman" was once thought to take some time to come out. At the 14th China Air Show, a "loyal wingman" named FH-97A, developed by Feihong Company of the Ninth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group, came out in the air. With its advanced design concept that subverts the existing air combat mode, many military fans could not help sighing that it is coming and the future is coming! (FH-97A "Loyal wingman" system) "Loyal wingman is an important hotspot in UAV field in recent years, and is also widely considered as an important part of future unmanned combat system." Deng Shuai, Chief Engineer of Unmanned System Models of Feihong Company of the Ninth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Group, said in an interview with reporters at the current air show that the industry generally believes that loyal wingmen are expected to subvert the traditional mode of manned air combat, create a new niche in the original air combat system, and change the original mode of long-range, medium and short-range air combat of fighter formation. According to the reporter, the FH-97A "Loyal wingman" system, which was unveiled to the public for the first time, is a new type of autonomous UAV formation system developed based on this frontier combat concept. This type of UAV can form a dense formation with manned combat aircraft in an efficient way to perform air control operations, air defense suppression, and air escort tasks. It can not only solve the problems of limited service scale of manned combat aircraft and aging aircraft, but also build an unmanned combat mode by developing new unmanned combat forces. FH-97A "Loyal wingman" system has three outstanding features. First, it can carry out cooperative reconnaissance with special aircraft. By going out in advance, it can find potential ground or air dangerous targets in advance and provide early warning to ensure that special aircraft can avoid the route as soon as possible. It can also make up for the time and space range of special aircraft early warning reconnaissance by taking advantage of its long endurance, long range and other advantages. Second, it can cooperate with the fighter to carry out air defense suppression, carry electronic reconnaissance and jamming payload to carry out close reconnaissance and jamming against the enemy, so as to ensure the penetration of the fighter, and also implement long-term jamming against the enemy's important radio infrastructure, thus paralyzing the enemy's air defense system. The third is to carry out coordinated targeting with fighter planes, carry reconnaissance loads and fly to meet the enemy before flying formation in air combat, detect fire control level guidance data for friendly fighters, and distribute it to the main fighters through low probability of interception data link, so as to guide the main fighters to fire first to destroy the enemy's air targets. "It can be said that the FH-97A presented this time is not only a sensor, but also a ammunition depot, and also an intelligent assistant for pilots. On the one hand, it can expand the range of pilots' perception and attack. On the other hand, through large-scale, clustered and generalized use, each wingman can become an intelligent node in the air combat system, obtain local combat information, and conduct screening and fusion to form a global battlefield situation and help pilots make decisions It liberates people from the dangerous and highly tense combat environment, and enables pilots to become commanders of a flight formation in addition to being traditional pilots.