GA-ASI has named its YFQ-42 Collaborative Combat Aircraft as Dark Merlin, a small, fierce falcon species which hunts other falcons while collaborating in

Notably, dark merlins are also a known presence around GA-ASI’s manufacturing plant in San Diego, California, where the YFQ-42 is built. In fact, while this species is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States, it often migrates into southern California.