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  • XQ-58A Valkyrie combat drone returns to flight after landing mishap [beautiful!]

    01/31/2020 12:09:42 PM PST · by Red Badger · 24 replies
    New Atlas ^ | January 29, 2020 | By David Szondy
    The XQ-5A Valkyrie on a 2019 test flight AFRL ____________________________________________________________________ The jet-powered XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator drone has returned to the air three months after being damaged in a landing mishap. On January 23, the unmanned aircraft being developed by the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions completed its fourth flight test at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. The fourth in a planned schedule of five flights, the most recent test was designed to push the performance envelope of the Valkyrie. In particular, the flight took the drone to its highest altitude yet as engineers collected...
  • Air Force's Secretive XQ-58A Valkyrie Experimental Combat Drone Emerges After First Flight

    03/08/2019 9:47:37 AM PST · by McGruff · 51 replies
    The War Zone ^ | March 6, 2019 | Tyler Rogoway
    Just a week after Boeing unveiled their export-centric 'loyal wingman' combat drone concept, the Air Force Research Lab has announced that their own similar endeavor, dubbed the XQ-58A Valkyrie, has made its first flight. It also posted the very first image of the aircraft that has been developed under a veil of secrecy over the last two and half years. Beyond finally breaking cover as the USAF's 'attritable' unmanned combat air vehicle concept, the XQ-58A is really the first Air Force UCAV concept we have seen since all the momentum towards fielding any sort of this type of hugely promising...