Kratos

By Brian Everstine
Kratos Defense and Security recently completed the first flight of its stealthy uncrewed combat air vehicle Thanatos, proving out the aircraft’s basic design.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is under pressure to field two advanced new capabilities by 2035.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The Zeus-1 and Zeus-2 motors completed a test launch from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, closing a three-year, $23 million development program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
As satellite operators turn to smaller, proliferated spacecraft to protect space-based capabilities, industry sees ground stations as a new target for attacks.
Satellites

By Steve Trimble
Using artificial intelligence-assisted autonomy functions, ShieldAI’s Hivemind software controlled two Kratos MQM-178 Firejet drones in collaborative maneuvers.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
In the past, Kratos publicized plans to develop a second hypersonic vehicle named Dark Fury, but offered few details.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
GE Aerospace and Kratos have announced the joint development of a new scalable engine aimed at missiles, uncrewed aircraft systems and even potential CCA use.
Farnborough Airshow

By Steve Trimble
The Missile Defense Agency reports it has launched a Hypersonic Testbed to demonstrate a new experimental testing platform.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Development work on the U.S. Air Force’s experimental, hypersonic Mayhem vehicle has been paused following the completion of an early design milestone.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Marine Corps is in the study phase of its collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) effort.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The integration will allow the Navy to experiment with autonomous capabilities as it continues developing concepts for crewed-uncrewed teaming capabilities.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The service will select two companies to begin building CCAs, though with a cost-sharing agreement to bring along a third.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The San Diego-based UAS, propulsion and sensor company decided not to offer a bid for a high-profile UAS program as a prime contractor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble, Guy Norris
As the first U.S. hypersonic weapons enter service, defense officials are searching for new ideas for high-speed propulsion and to dramatically reduce prices.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
More details about France’s V-MAX hypersonic glider flight test have emerged.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Kratos briefings since 2018 have included references to a secret internal program named Thanatos, but the company had never before shown the concept.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Guy Norris
As XB-1 nears flight tests and the final assembly site comes together, Boom is focused on Overture airframe and engine design firm configuration.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A market survey released by the Air Force calls for higher engine thrust than what candidates for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft have flown so far.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Kratos' newly acquired 5GAT platform could also be developed to perform a "wide range of other applications," along with new configurations of the XQ-58.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The series of tests by the 40th Flight Test Squadron is being used to inform how the U.S. Air Force tests and applies the synthetic decision-making technology.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The linkup between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems is the latest in Hypersonix’s growth into the U.S. market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Zeus, a low-cost motor, designed to power Kratos’ Erinyes and Dark Fury hypersonic vehicles, completed a successful ground test in Arkansas.
Missile Defense & Weapons