Attrition-tolerant Wildfire combat drone brings mass firepower

General Atomics unveiled the Wildfire project, a cheap and mass-producible reconnaissance-strike drone for the U.S. Air Force's Massed Modular Aircraft program. The vehicle has a ferry range of 14,816 km, carries two anti-ship missiles or four Joint Strike Missiles, and is controlled via pLEO satellite constellations.

• Wildfire ferry range is 8,000 nautical miles (14,816 km)
• Carries two anti-ship cruise missiles or four JSM
• Controlled via pLEO satellites for dozens of vehicles at once
• Designed as a cheap MQ-9 Reaper replacement under the MMA program