Oshkosh Defense to produce Grid Aero's Lifter long-range cargo drone to improve US military logistics

Oshkosh Defense and Grid Aero announced a strategic partnership to prepare Grid Aero’s Lifter uncrewed cargo aircraft for large-scale production. Grid Aero supplies the aircraft design, while Oshkosh will contribute manufacturing engineering, production planning and supply-chain support through its Wisconsin industrial base. Lifter is a piston-powered aircraft designed to carry modular payloads over long distances for military logistics, including deliveries to distributed forces. The announcement describes the companies’ plan to move the aircraft toward repeatable manufacture, with Oshkosh expected to build it at scale once the design and production arrangements are ready.