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Inside Skunk Works: Lockheed’s Bet on Vectis

From inside Lockheed Martin’s storied Skunk Works, Aeronautics President OJ Sanchez discusses the company’s push to move faster on the next generation of air power. He explains why Lockheed is investing ahead of formal Pentagon requirements in its autonomous Vectis aircraft, and how a single F-35 could eventually control as many as eight Vectis drones.…

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From inside Lockheed Martin’s storied Skunk Works, Aeronautics President OJ Sanchez discusses the company’s push to move faster on the next generation of air power. He explains why Lockheed is investing ahead of formal Pentagon requirements in its autonomous Vectis aircraft, and how a single F-35 could eventually control as many as eight Vectis drones. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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  1. @richert8

    October 2, 2026 at 2:31 pm

    What the US needs is a US Naval air fighter with a longer range than 600 miles.

    • @ravissary79

      October 2, 2026 at 3:31 pm

      That’s already been awarded.
      Lockheed dropped out of the naval airpower manned 6th gen contest a long while ago.
      They previously delivered the ramge requirements they were asked to do. Now the 6th gen projects want 1000+ mile range on almost all new options.

      The Boeing design for both the f47 and the FAXX will hit those benchmarks. If Lockheed had wo n, they would also hit that benchmark or they wouldn’t get picked.

  2. @zstrizzel

    October 3, 2026 at 2:49 am

    Amazing work guys, let’s try to keep the cost per unit under $100mn this time.
    US soil isn’t getting attacked physically right now, it’s getting attacked in the bond market.
    Consider for a moment that it isn’t Russia subs that are going to sink America — it’s debt.

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