Wed, Jun 06, 2018
Demonstrated And Validated Multiple Capabilities
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions recently successfully performed a series of demonstration flights for one of its highest performance jet unmanned aircraft systems, currently in production and deployed at multiple locations around the globe. These flights successfully demonstrated and validated multiple capabilities unachievable by previous unmanned aircraft systems in this category. Due to customer related, competitive, and other considerations, no additional information will be provided related to these flights.
Kratos provides high performance unmanned aerial threat representation target drone systems and tactical drone systems for force augmentation, multiplication, distributed lethality, anti-access/area denied environment survivability, and other missions.
"Being able to provide these critical and challenging levels of performance to our customers reinforces our commitment to technology advancement and focus on our customers’ objectives, even at the most challenging edges of the performance envelope," said Steve Fendley, president of Kratos Unmanned Systems Division. "Our recent successful demonstration flights represent a great success for our customers, for the company, and for our employees who enable these achievements.”
"Our commitment to evolving unmanned aerial drone systems technology and pushing the boundaries while remaining true to our core differentiator, affordability, remains the primary focus of our unmanned systems division," said Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos. "This achievement exemplifies the successful execution of Kratos corporate strategy and I am truly proud of this continued progress and our important role in support of the warfighter with our transformational systems.”
(Source: Kratos news release)
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