GKN Aerospace begins engine tests for drone design as part of contract signed in November
A contact for the development of the drone was signed in November 2025. (Photo: author)
A mock-up displayed by GKN Aerospace on 21 August is planned to have a maximum range between 600km and more than 1,000 km with a payload capacity of 100-300kg.
GKN Aerospace displayed a mock-up of a new uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) at the Swedish Armed Forces Air Show at Malmen Airbase Linköping in southern Sweden, a platform created less than a year after the development contract was placed in November 2025.
The unnamed UAV, developed under Project Otto through a SEK150 million (US$15.8 million) contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), is substantially an effort to see if a UAV of this kind can be developed from scratch with a new engine within 18 months.
Tests of the new turbojet engine have already been conducted, the number and nature
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