Kratos Air Wolf Tactical Drone System Completes Successful Flight at Burns Flat, Oklahoma Range Facility
25 August 2021 - 10:00PM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS),
a leading National Security Solutions provider announced today that
its Air Wolf Tactical Drone System completed a 100 percent
successful flight at the recently approved Burns Flat, Oklahoma
Range Facility. The Kratos Air Wolf Mission, which was the
inaugural flight at the Burns Flat Range location, included
multiple new payloads carried by the Air Wolf Drone, including a
proprietary Kratos artificial intelligence/autonomy system, which
has been developed by Kratos specifically for high performance, jet
drone aircraft.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/2951f95b-4be6-4712-b5dc-2cda2f4a4511
Air Wolf is one of several drones in Kratos’
family of affordable, high-performance jet drones that are flying
today, also including the attritable UTAP-22 Mako, XQ-58A Valkyrie,
and the reusable X-61A Gremlins drone with the Gremlins Program
Prime being with Kratos’ strategic partner Dynetics. The
newly approved Burns Flat Test Range and Facility is an important
new strategic asset available to Kratos, enabling Kratos to
accelerate its drone testing and demonstration, further increasing
Kratos’ ability to rapidly develop and demonstrate jet drones,
supporting subsystems, and other tactical systems and
aircraft. For competitive, security and other considerations,
no additional information will be provided regarding the successful
Air Wolf flight and mission.
Steve Fendley, President of Kratos
Unmanned Systems Division, said, “This successful Air Wolf
flight at the recently approved Burns Flat Range facility is the
latest example of the teaming approach Kratos routinely takes with
its partners at the local, state and federal government levels with
the objective of accelerating technology development and a focus on
science, technology, engineering, and math advancement. The
Air Wolf drone system that successfully flew today demonstrated a
number of new mission systems which we believe are operationally
and tactically relevant for Kratos’ government customer set, as our
proven commercial development approach and robust digital
engineering, modeling and simulation capabilities, and
affordability-focused processes continue to successfully rapidly
deliver affordable high performance jet aircraft, not just models,
surrogates, or renditions.”
Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of
Kratos, said, “Kratos thanks Senator Inhofe, the Federal
Aviation Administration and all other government stakeholders in
bringing the Burns Flat Range and Test facility to a reality, and
we believe that Burns Flat will be an incredibly valuable asset to
the State of Oklahoma and for companies like Kratos. Kratos’
Ghost Works played an incredibly important role in today’s
successful Air Wolf flight, and with our Valkyrie, Mako, Gremlin
and Air Wolf drones, we believe that we are ready now, today, to
meet our customers’ requirements with a family of affordable, high
performance jet drones in the disposable, reusable and attritable
classes.”
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions,
Inc. (NASDAQ:KTOS) develops and fields transformative,
affordable technology, platforms and systems for United States
National Security related customers, allies and commercial
enterprises. Kratos is changing the way breakthrough technology for
these industries are rapidly brought to market through proven
commercial and venture capital backed approaches, including
proactive research and streamlined development processes. At
Kratos, affordability is a technology, and we specialize in
unmanned systems, satellite communications, cyber security/warfare,
microwave electronics, missile defense, hypersonic systems,
training, combat systems and next generation turbo jet and turbo
fan engine development. For more information, please
visit www.KratosDefense.com.
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
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business of Kratos in general, see the risk disclosures in the
Annual Report on Form 10-K of Kratos for the year
ended December 27, 2020, and in subsequent reports on Forms
10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the SEC by
Kratos.
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