Debrief: Valkyrie Success Comes Quickly After Decade-long Development

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XQ-58A Valkyrie

Credit: U.S. Marines Photo/Alamy
When Kratos won a contract in July 2016 to develop a long-range spinoff of the UTAP-22 Mako for an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) demonstration, a successful franchise in the combat aircraft business seemed just around the corner. Nine-and-a-half years later, the time for that aircraft—the XQ...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC.

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