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2024
20 November A Silent Arrow GD-2000 carrying a 1,000-pound payload is loaded aboard an MC-130J for deployment in the INDOPACOM AOR with a United States partner nation.

Silent Arrow wins Air Force contract for contested logistics drone

Whereas the GD-2000 is an unpowered glider, the new CLS-200 can travel six times as far by using an innovative propulsion unit and propeller that are inexpensive enough to allow the drone to be single-use.

10 October The powered Silent Arrow CLS-300 is based on the foundational engineering of the Silent Arrow GD-2000, the first attritable, autonomous heavy payload cargo delivery drone to enter mass production.

Silent Arrow wins contract to build loitering cargo drone

The company will build on Phase I propulsion test success to prepare a number of full-scale aircraft for flight tests in Q3 and Q4 of 2025.

2023
18 December

ReleaseSilent Arrow awarded AFWERX contract to develop a long-range powered cargo drone