HUMAN AUTHORITY
A person authorizes every engagement.
LINE 03 / Loitering Strike
ENDURANCE.WITH AUTHORITY.
A planned long-endurance strike variant built on the shared Ferrus foundation.
PLANNED
01 / Mission
PERSISTENCE UNDER HUMAN AUTHORITY.
Loitering Strike extends the Ferrus airframe and avionics into long-endurance missions. It will follow a proven Ferrus airframe and real customer demand, and will not be built ahead of either.
Human authorization of every engagement, and a complete record of each one, are baseline design requirements, not features added later.
02 / Design
ENGAGEMENT RECORDS
Every engagement is recorded, complete and reviewable.
COMMON FOUNDATION
Shared airframe, avionics and software from the Ferrus spine.
EVIDENCE FIRST
Expansion follows flight evidence and demand.
03 / Program facts
- ROLE
- Long-endurance strike
- AUTHORITY
- Human authorization of every engagement
- RECORDS
- Complete engagement records
- BASIS
- Ferrus common spine
- STATUS
- Planned
04 / Platform
Loitering Strike is built on the Ferrus common spine: shared avionics, software, interfaces and production.
- AIRFRAMES AND TOOLING: Common structures, and the tooling to make them at rate.
- AVIONICS: One family of flight and mission electronics across every product.
- FLIGHT AND MISSION SOFTWARE: One software base, built to improve with every flight of every product.
- COMMON CANISTER INTERFACE: A standard mechanical and electrical interface for launch and integration.
- UNIFIED TEST-DATA LOOP: Every test feeds one dataset that every product line learns from.
- PRODUCTION AND SUPPORT: One line, one quality system, one support model.
05 / Status
PLANNED
- CONCEPT
- DESIGN
- BUILD
- FLIGHT TEST
- QUALIFICATION
- PRODUCTION