Extended flight range01
6,400km
Ferry range on internal fuel. On a mission it holds station for 34 hours at 15 km altitude.
Reconnaissance airframe
Kestrel Jet-powered (ISR) drone concept
A tailless flying wing that watches one region for a day and a half, then flies home. There is no pilot on board, and very little for radar to catch.
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Three things it does better than anything its size.
Kestrel ISR
Advanced ISR camera02
12KEO/IR
Day and thermal imaging plus radar mapping. It picks out 12 cm detail from 15 km up, through cloud.
Stealth airframe03
−30dBsm
Estimated frontal radar return. On a screen, that looks about as big as a large insect.
Low observability
Built to be hard to find.
Every edge on the wing runs along one of four angles.
Radar energy that hits the airframe is thrown off to the side, away from the receiver. The engine sits deep inside the body, so the hot exhaust leaves through a flat, cooled slot on top where ground sensors can't see it.
4Edge angles
0Vertical surfaces
−30 dBsmFrontal return, est.
The sensor
One pass. A full map.
The nose gimbal pairs a 12K day and thermal camera with a synthetic-aperture radar. It maps through cloud and at night, and streams a live, encrypted feed to the ground team while it flies.
Anatomy
Take it apart.
Each airframe is a stack of sealed modules. A two-person crew can swap any one of them in under 20 minutes with hand tools, so a damaged drone is back in the air the same day.
Three airframes. One ground system.
They share the same control station, data link and spares. Pick the airframe for the job, not the whole stack.
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Program briefings · 2027 intake
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