Kratos has provided a rendering of its Thanatos stealth drone. This is there most advanced design and is better than the XQ-58A Valkyrie drone. It will like be for the US Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program (fighter and bomber wingman drone) or other advanced drone projects.
The company has about $2 billion per year in revenue and has lot of secret military drone projects.
The US Air Force will be able to rapidly increase the firepower of the fleet by adding drones that carry missiles and bmobs.
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2 billion … and crappy ‘rendering’? I smell a rat. Seemed more like advertising copy than actual working tech. Then again, a lot of military is vaporware. Just Sayin’…