FriscoShield AI unveiled a stealth drone that launches tail-down.
The US Navy hopes X-BAT becomes an operational capability on a very aggressive timeline.
Its thrust-vectoring nozzle controls pitch and yaw, and bleed air routed through wing thrusters will control roll, Shield AI has said.
X-BAT 001, the first of 2 planned prototypes, is moving to Shield AI’s Newton, Kansas, flight test facility.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone
- foregrounds the X-BAT's redesign from cranked kite to arrowhead planform, tracing the change from the April Sea-Air-Space half-scale model
Sources: The War Zone