Target Drones for Advanced Training 

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Target drones are usually used in the training of anti-aircraft crews. Kratos Unmanned Systems Division (KUSD) has recently received a $4.1 million contract award from an international customer for high performance, unmanned aerial target drone system aircraft and related services. 

Their suite of targets has been developed to provide the warfighters of the United States and its allies with threat-representative systems capable of emulating existing and emerging threats.

According to the company announcement, “the recapitalization of strategic weapon systems by the United States and its allies is driving significant global demand for Kratos target drone systems which represent certain leading technology system and platform threats of our peer adversaries.”  

“The broad application set of these drone systems as well as the speed at which they can be developed, produced, modified, and reconfigured creates the high utility / affordable cost ratio, especially as compared to manned systems.“