{"id":969193,"date":"2025-10-24T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969193"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:02:30","slug":"silicon-valley-backed-shield-ai-enters-fighter-jet-race-with-new-wingman-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/silicon-valley-backed-shield-ai-enters-fighter-jet-race-with-new-wingman-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley-backed Shield AI enters fighter jet race with new &#8220;wingman&#8221; drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley-based defense technology firm Shield AI has launched a conceptual model of its large X-Bat drone, the company said on Wednesday, joining a growing field of companies vying to supply the U.S. military with mini fighter jet-style drones. <\/p>\n<p>The company said the X-Bat, which looks like a shrunken B-2 Bomber, is currently conceptual and does not have any contracts signed. The company said the model, which will be sold for close to $30 million and designed to launch and land vertically with a jet engine, will be able to travel more than 2,000 nautical miles with a full payload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley-based defense technology firm Shield AI has launched a conceptual model of its large X-Bat drone, the company said on Wednesday, joining a growing field of companies vying to supply the U.S. military with mini fighter jet-style drones. The company said the X-Bat, which looks like a shrunken B-2 Bomber, is currently conceptual and does not have any contracts signed. The company said the model, which will be sold for close to $30 million and designed to launch and land vertically with a jet engine, will be able to travel more than 2,000 nautical miles with a full payload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}