Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), also known more colloquially as Skunk Works, has unveiled a new, high-end stealth drone for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) Program, dubbed Vectis. According to TWZ, Vectis is designed to be highly adaptable to an operator’s requirements, whether they be... in the United States or in other partner countries around the world, with the first variant expected to take flight by 2028. “Meet Vectis, a Group 5, survivable, lethal, and reusable, Collaborative Combat Aircraft that embodies not only our pedigree in [crewed] fighter aircraft, autonomy, and uncrewed systems, but [that] is also enabled by that Agile Drone Framework,” O.J. Sanchez, Lockheed Martin Vice President and General Manager of Skunk Works, told The War Zone and other media outlets this past week. “Vectis will provide U.S. and allied warfighters with range, endurance, and multi-mission flexibility, including air-to-air, air-to-surface, and ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance].”show more

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@thewarzonewire This is the big reveal? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

@thewarzonewire Seems US wants to maintain its air dominancy in the world

@thewarzonewire Meanwhile Ukraine gets the job done with Drones that cost 1000 US dollars or less. 🙄

@thewarzonewire It should work great against adversaries with no modern air defense, or space based weapons.

@thewarzonewire We’ve all seen the movie Stealth

@thewarzonewire That's fucking dope looks like that nazi plane from 1942

@thewarzonewire A strong America is vital for our region's security.

@thewarzonewire Cool aircraft, bad name. "Vectis" sounds like an insect repellent or a pharmaceutical drug.

@thewarzonewire So this is the Mysterious aircraft

@thewarzonewire Oh, thank you so much for the billions of $ of research and development, you'll have great fun using it to fight off martians or something. We can watch the show on our phones while we are hunted in the city streets by antifa goons and sh0t down in our churches by tr*ns loons.

@thewarzonewire Oh Cmon! Some bullst drones. WE WANT THE UAP TECH! NOW!! @LockheedMartin

@thewarzonewire This isn’t the skunkworks announcement

@thewarzonewire How many trillions will it take to not work like the 35th failure?

@thewarzonewire Only relevant after Trump is gone.

@thewarzonewire A whole bunch of these went over my house the other night and NONE of them showed up on my Flight Radar App.

@thewarzonewire @grok is this lockheeds "big announcement that we won't want to miss" or have we been RUGGED again.

@thewarzonewire 2028 feels ambitious but Skunk Works usually delivers.

@thewarzonewire I think these were the NJ drones

@thewarzonewire They are about to show us why the DOW/DOD budget is 1T

@thewarzonewire God bless America.

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@thewarzonewire Cool. But LHM better be prepared to pump out like 2000 of them if a war breaks out or else this is practically useless.

@thewarzonewire Will this be used exclusively for ANTIFA?

@thewarzonewire Si esto es lo que presentan al público, imagínate lo que se queda "black". Skunkworks son la maquina!

@thewarzonewire Yay a new killing machine, good job humans

@thewarzonewire I hate the military industrial complex. Lockheed's boondoggle programs that they always come in 10's of billions over budgets they promised and years too late i.e the F-35 total failure of a program .Im glad you get rich on our tax dollars when you fail us.

@thewarzonewire When they sell this to other countries, they won’t give all the features! They will just remove them

@thewarzonewire That is one big ass D but the Chinese have a little tiny micro ones

@thewarzonewire Looks like the Roswell craft

@thewarzonewire Send some to Ukraine for testing on ruzzians.

@thewarzonewire Nice AI generated video. Going to cost $1 bil just to get a mockup?

@thewarzonewire I cold be everything...

@thewarzonewire stealth drone szn unlocked

@thewarzonewire Skunk Works does it again 🚀 Meet Vectis, the stealth drone that could define future air wars. Multi-mission, survivable, lethal. First flight 2028.