Everything We Just Learned About The Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft From The Skunk Works

- Skunk Works finally showed the receipts on Vectis, its tailless Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and I've already started the speech. The big reveal: that top-mounted inlet isn't a bump, it's a deeply recessed "submerged" intake hiding behind a v-shaped channel — signature management from every radar's point of view. Course of action — action: 34 feet long, 38-foot lambda wing, first prototype flying by end of next year, four more internally funded. Skunk Works boss Ron Fehlen says the flush-ish inlet cuts frontal drag and keeps FOD out during Agile Combat Employment ops from austere strips — survivability so aggressive even the intake surrendered. Victory is near.