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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

Products: uas. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 22.9/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 97th percentile of 118 defense space companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains a single entry, an August 2026 crash of an XQ-58 Valkyrie drone at Dugway Proving Ground that prompted a pause in flight operations, carrying severity 4. This produces an index of 23.1 at the 96.6 percentile within defense-space. The entry describes a test-program crash rather than an operational or combat loss, and reflects a single event with no casualties reported. Coverage is press-driven with an internal flight pause but no external regulatory action recorded.

Entries by year and severity

012026 S4: 1126
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S408/04
2026
crash Dugway Proving Ground, UT, USAXQ-58 Valkyrie crashes at Dugway Proving Ground, flights paused · 1 aircraft TWZ

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