Kratos' first Valkyries nearly built, look to begin flight testing next year

By Rachel Cohen / September 1, 2017 at 9:15 AM
Kratos' Valkyrie, in development for the Air Force’s Low-Cost Attritable Strike Unmanned Aerial System Demonstration, completed the aircraft’s critical design review earlier this month and is working toward flight tests by the third quarter of 2018, a company official told Inside the Air Force this week. Kratos is currently building two Valkyries, which should be complete and in the process of final ground tests and payload integration by January 2018, Jeff Herro, senior vice president of business development, said in...

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