Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced projects bureau has officially revealed the design of its Speed Racer air vehicle.
A computer-generated segment appeared in a video promoting Lockheed Martin’s StarDrive digital environment released ahead of the Air Force Associations’ 2021 Virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
The missile-shaped unmanned system is ostensibly intended to serve as an experiment in digital engineering techniques, but has the potential to be the basis for future swarming drones and low-cost cruise missiles.
Source: YouTube
[see also: Lockheed Martin Unveils Speed Racer UAS to Prove Digital Engineering -Ed.]
Given Lockheed’s successful secret programs in the past i would not put it as impossible that the one shown may be a rejected design, just to throw adversaries off.