The War Zone
• Jamie Hunter
X-BAT stealth combat drone program highlights GE propulsion, thrust-vectoring controls, and Hivemind AI “pilot” ahead of flight
Armor Harris, X-BAT’s chief designer, lays out how the stealth fighter-drone program pairs a GE engine with thrust-vectoring controls and integrates Shield AI’s Hivemind as an onboard “pilot.” The discussion also points to forthcoming flight-test plans as the autonomy-and-propulsion stack moves from concept to flight.
