Lockheed Martin’s newly unveiled Vectis drone will be a groundbreaking advancement in unmanned aerial systems. Lockheed Martin has introduced Vectis and describes it as the most advanced fighter drone ever built. Vectis will merge 5th-generation (F-35-like stealth and sensors) and 6th-generation (advanced autonomy and networking) fighter technologies into a single, low-observable (stealthy) combat drone. The Vectis drone features a sophisticated sensor suite resembling the F-35’s Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS), as seen in Lockheed’s promotional footage. Its extreme low-observability (aka stealth) provides capabilities more aligned with current 5th-generation fighters (F-22/F-35) than with lower-cost CCA drones that are already in testing.