New Polish jet-powered drone looks a lot like a miniature B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, and there's a good reason why
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A 30 kg turbojet loitering munition with B-2-style low observability shows how quickly high-end design patterns are diffusing into small, disposable systems. Defense and critical-infrastructure operators should assume more capable, harder-to-detect drones in their threat models within a 2–4 year window, not a decade.
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