Shown is a Kratos rendering of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Off-Board Sensing Station low-cost attritable unmanned aircraft system. Image courtesy of Kratos.
Warzone/The Drive: This Is Our First Look At Kratos' Shadowy New Drone Design For The U.S. Air Force
We are finally getting a few more details from Kratos on the secretive Off-Board Sensing Station program.
Kratos has released the first rendering, seen at the top of this story, of the unmanned aircraft it is developing under the U.S. Air Force's secretive Off-Board Sensing Station program, or OBSS. While details about the drone remain limited, we do know there is a heavy emphasis on scalability, modularity, and affordability, and that it will leverage advanced design and manufacturing concepts to help achieve these goals. There also may be hints as to what it may be intended to do thanks to recent remarks from one of the company's executives.
Breaking Defense was the first to publish the artist's conception of Kratos' OBSS design yesterday, along with an interview with Steve Fendley, the President of the company's Unmanned Systems Division. In October, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded Kratos a contract to build and flight test at least one OBSS prototype. General Atomics also received a functionally identical OBSS contract from AFRL, though the value of their deal was different.
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WNU Editor: More details here .... Swarms of attritable UAS can create the ISR picture the Air Force wants (Breaking Defense).
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