SwarmAero unveils Gamera low-cost strike drone

SwarmAero unveiled Gamera, a Group 5 strike and sensing unmanned aircraft system (UAS), at the Air Force and Space Conference. The aircraft is mass-producible and significantly cheaper than traditional platforms, and is the first drone purpose-built to deploy LRASM/JASSM-ER-class strike munitions, with a range exceeding 9,000 nautical miles without aerial refueling and a cost per effect one-tenth that of traditional strike solutions. The aircraft has been designed since 2022 for the U.S. Air Force's "large-scale modular aircraft" program. Khosla Ventures commented that this marks an important step toward "a future where air power is built at scale."