Jun 22, 2021
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray!
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The U.S. Navy successfully conducted its first-ever aerial refueling between a manned aircraft and an unmanned tanker. The unmanned tanker was being flown from the ground control station.
The Illinois-based mission lasted about four and a half hours and validated that an unmanned tanker could successfully use the Navy’s standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method.
