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Airbus Teams with Kratos on XQ-58A for German Air Force

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, July 17th, 2025

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Airbus Teams with Kratos on XQ-58A for German Air Force

Pictured are Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael outside the Pentagon on July 16 (U.S. Navy Photo)

Germany's Airbus Defence and Space said on Wednesday that it will collaborate with California's Kratos Defense and Security Solutions [KTOS] to field Kratos' XQ-58A Valkyrie drone with an Airbus mission system for the German Air Force by 2029. Kratos recently announced that it is offering a conventional takeoff and landing Valkyrie, originally developed as a rocket-aided rail take-off drone (Defense Daily, May 8). In 2020, as part of the U.S. Air Force's Skyborg Vanguard program--a predecessor to the service's Collaborative…

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