More Details on US Air Force’s Secrete Unmanned Project

More Details on US Air Force’s Secrete Unmanned Project

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The US Air Force wants to deploy a new unmanned platform. It is interested in a new type of low-cost yet advanced drone to be used as an “Off-Board Sensing Station,” or OBSS. 

Details remain very limited, and the few publicly available Air Force Research Laboratory documents on the program state that specifics are only available to approved contractors. According to Kratos, one of the companies involved with the effort, the new unmanned platform could potentially end up being as revolutionary as the firm’s stealthy XQ-58 Valkyrie has been.

According to a Kratos official, if the program is successful, the company believes it “could ultimately be as significant and transformational to Kratos as we expect Valkyrie to be.” 

He added that the OBSS program is a signal that “the total addressable market opportunity for Kratos’ class of tactical drones is rapidly expanding and clarifying, as the Department of Defense strives for affordable force multiplier systems and technologies,” as reported by thedrive.com.