{"id":108503,"date":"2020-06-10T14:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mq-25-stingray-drones-are-giving-navy-aircraft-carriers-a-life-extension"},"modified":"2020-06-10T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T21:04:27","slug":"mq-25-stingray-drones-are-giving-navy-aircraft-carriers-a-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mq-25-stingray-drones-are-giving-navy-aircraft-carriers-a-life-extension","title":{"rendered":"MQ-25 Stingray Drones Are Giving Navy Aircraft Carriers A Life Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mq-25-stingray-drones-are-giving-navy-aircraft-carriers-a-life-extension.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s What You Need To Remember: <\/strong>Chinese so-called \u201ccarrier-killer\u201d missiles could, quite possibly, push a carrier back to a point where its fighters no longer have range to strike inland enemy targets from the air. The new drone is being engineered, at least in large measure, as a specific way to address this problem. If the attack distance of an F-18, which might have a combat radius of 500 miles or so, can double \u2014 then carrier-based fighters can strike targets as far as 1000 miles away if they are refueled from the air.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy will choose a new carrier-launched drone at the end of this year as part of a plan to massively expand fighter jet attack range and power projection ability of aircraft carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging Navy MQ-25 Stingray program, to enter service in the mid-2020s, will bring a new generation of technology by engineering a first-of-its-kind unmanned re-fueler for the carrier air wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s What You Need To Remember: Chinese so-called \u201ccarrier-killer\u201d missiles could, quite possibly, push a carrier back to a point where its fighters no longer have range to strike inland enemy targets from the air. The new drone is being engineered, at least in large measure, as a specific way to address this problem. If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}