Product profile
Nomad 100
Nomad 100 is Sikorsky's autonomous rotor-blown-wing VTOL UAS for runway-independent military missions from land, ships and austere sites. The aircraft comp...
Facts
- Company
- Lockheed Martin
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- testing
- Primary capability
- Autonomous multirole VTOL
- Website
- https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/sikorsky-nomad.html
About Nomad 100
Nomad 100 is Sikorsky's autonomous vertical-take-off aircraft concept for logistics and other uncrewed missions. It applies Sikorsky autonomy technology to a rotorcraft designed to carry cargo without an onboard pilot.
The programme is presented as a development platform within Lockheed Martin's autonomous-aircraft work. Payload, range, schedule and production status need to be treated as programme-specific and cannot be inferred from other Sikorsky aircraft.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous VTOL UAS
Core: Nomad 100
Function: Runway-independent missions
Audience: Defense
Specifications
- airframe_architecture
- Rotor-blown-wing VTOL
- autonomy_system
- Sikorsky MATRIX
- operating_modes
- Vertical take-off and landing, hover and wing-borne cruise
- propulsion_layout
- Twin prop-rotor system
- wingspan_ft
- 18 ft
Operations
- Environment
- land, maritime, austere forward bases, ship decks, unimproved landing zones
- Primary user
- military operators, DARPA test teams
- Role
- autonomous VTOL, crewed-uncrewed teaming, multirole support
- Interaction model
- MATRIX autonomous operation, operator-commanded missions
- Mobility class
- rotor-blown-wing VTOL
- Product detail
- 1600, candidate11-approved, 900, 4c1724c42ab2a23fa211f16fb9dfe631d7922c5eb62b0b1ae88d46a713789ebd, 4c1724c42ab2a23fa211f16fb9dfe631d7922c5eb62b0b1ae88d46a713789ebd, 1600, 900, https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/photo/sikorsky-innovations/Sikorsky-ANCILLARY-RBW.jpg, https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/photo/sikorsky-innovations/Sikorsky-ANCILLARY-RBW.jpg, https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/sikorsky-nomad.html, source_backed_phot...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Lockheed Martin demonstrates SensorMAX across eight simultaneous sonar feeds — 2026-08-05
- Skunk Works completes 27 AI-controlled intercepts using live sensor data — 2026-08-04
- Sikorsky Nomad 100 completes initial DARPA EVADE flight-test phase — 2026-07-22
- BETA unveils MV250 autonomous hybrid military logistics VTOL — 2026-07-20
- Lockheed Martin unveils recoverable MORFIUS X-Rotor counter-UAS system — 2026-07-20
- Lockheed Martin Aculight and nLIGHT win $86M JLWS laser-weapon awards — 2026-07-09
- Lockheed Martin signs $3.45B agreement to acquire Ultra Maritime — 2026-07-06
- Sentrycs Cyber-over-RF layer integrates into Lockheed Martin Sanctum C-UAS — 2026-06-23