General Atomics debuts new XQ-67A Air Force sensing drone

Published on February 12, 2024



Details of the AFRL’s Off-Board Sensing Station program remain highly classified, though the effort is expected to field an unmanned aircraft that can fly ahead of fighters and relay targeting information and other threat data back.

WASHINGTON — General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has lifted the lid on its drone offering for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) program, a new vehicle dubbed the XQ-67A that could soon be moving into flight testing.

In images and videos released by GA-ASI this week, the XQ-67A — whose design stems from the drone maker’s Gambit family of aircraft that the company is also proposing for the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program — is shown conducting high-speed taxi tests in preparation for a first flight. It’s not clear if the drone has flown yet, which the Air Force previously told Breaking Defense was planned for the “first half” of fiscal year 2024. 

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