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Swarm Aero Gamera

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Swarm Aero’s Gamera is a proposed Group 5 uncrewed aircraft intended to combine long range, substantial payload capacity, modular mission systems, and autonomous operations.

The company describes a platform with a claimed 9,000-nautical-mile range, seven hardpoints, and capacity for weapons such as the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile and JASSM-ER. Its Legion software is intended to let one operator supervise groups of aircraft rather than individually pilot each vehicle. Gamera is positioned as a lower-cost, attrition-tolerant alternative to platforms such as the MQ-9A Reaper and as a candidate for the Air Force’s Massed Modular Aircraft requirement, though its performance remains unverified because the aircraft has not yet flown.

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Military.com / Douglas Lindsay
Swarm Aero unveiled Gamera at a US conference as a proposed autonomous aircraft for the Air Force's planned Massed Modular Aircraft fleet.
9/16/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General
Interesting Engineering / Sujita Sinha
Swarm Aero unveiled Gamera, a proposed long-range uncrewed aircraft for the U.S. Air Force Massed Modular Aircraft program, at the Air, Space and Cyber conference.
9/15/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General
Janes / Jeremiah Cushman
Swarm Aero unveiled the Gamera Group 5 long-range strike drone in National Harbor, Maryland, on 14 September 2026 for potential US Air Force operations near Taiwan.
9/14/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General
Military Times / Daniel Terrill
Swarm Aero unveiled Gamera near Washington as a proposed low-cost, long-range strike UAS for the U.S. Air Force's Massed Modular Aircraft program.
9/14/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General
Breaking Defense / Michael Marrow
Swarm Aero unveiled Gamera in National Harbor, Maryland, as a proposed long-range, lower-cost unmanned aircraft for the Pentagon's Massed Modular Aircraft program.
9/14/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General
Additional1 article · CI Score below 45
Tectonic / Barratt Dewey
California-based Swarm Aero is developing a Reaper-sized autonomous Group 5 aircraft and Legion swarm software while conducting Air Force-funded composite manufacturing research.
8/10/2026 • Military Drones & Battlefield Use • General