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  • THE GREATEST
  • VICTORY REQUIRES
  • NO WAR

Earth Is Our Runway

The World’s First AI-Piloted VTOL Fighter Jet

X-BAT completely reimagines airpower – from training and logistics to operations and operating costs. This marks the greatest transformation in military aviation since the first airplanes launched and landed from ships 115 years ago.

Launch + Recovery Vehicle

Create Endless Dilemmas for Adversaries

X-BAT will serve as the leading edge of a distributed, unmanned fires network — capable of launching and recovering from ships, remote islands, or austere forward bases while eliminating dependency on traditional infrastructure.

NO RUNWAY REQUIRED
Launch From Anywhere

  • COVERT

  • MOBILE

  • LAND BASES

  • MARITIME

Pick Your Mission

  • Air-to-Air

  • Air-to-Surface

  • Electronic Warfare Suite

Specifications

  • 4g Maneuver Load Factor

  • 39 ft Wingspan

  • 2,000 NM Maximum Range

  • 50,000 ft Ceiling

  • 26 ft x 5 ft Fuselage Height
  • 40 ft x 14 ft x 6 ft Storage

Launch and Recovery Vehicle

From road to air in minutes. Vertical takeoff and landing meets 2,000+ NM of long range multi-mission dominance.

Fly Quietly, but Carry Big Sticks

X-BAT can carry both air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons in its internal bays. It can also carry large strike weapons on its external hardpoints.

Its sensor suite provides the full spectrum of active and passive air-to-air, air-to-ground, and air-to-surface modes.

3:1 Expeditionary Footprint

Three X-BATs fit in the deck space of one legacy fighter, dramatically increasing sortie generation and operational tempo.

X-BAT

Powered by Hivemind

Autonomy at the edge. Shield AI’s combat-proven AI pilot maneuvers X-BAT. Built to fly and fight in teams of X-BATs. X-BAT also operates in GPS and communications jammed environments.

AI-Powered Mission Autonomy

Hivemind unlocks AI-powered mission autonomy for X-BAT. Resilient execution in denied, degraded, or disconnected conditions — no GNSS, no comms, no human input required.

Intelligent, Collaborative X-BAT Teams

A single commander flies a team of N-number of X-BATs to autonomously execute the mission. Hivemind’s open architecture design ensures X-BATs plug-and-play into current and future Navy and Air Force operations.

Machine Speed OODA Loops

Colonel Boyd would be proud. Autonomous platform and payload task execution combined with machine-speed decisions at the tactical edge. Observe, orient, decide, and act in milliseconds.

Combat-Proven Autonomy

Operationally validated autonomy since 2019 and deployed on over fifteen platforms. Real-world deployment on the most highly contested modern battlefields. Hivemind is the autonomy of choice for U.S. and allied militaries.

First Flight 2026. Production 2029.

The future of autonomous airpower is not a concept — it is being built right now. In eighteen months, X-BAT has progressed through wind tunnel, pole, and engine testing, with the structural pathfinder in fabrication. With first VTOL flights scheduled for 2026 and mission capability by 2028, X-BAT is proving that speed, autonomy, and ingenuity will redefine airpower.

Engine Testing

Radar Cross Section Testing

Wind Tunnel Testing