{"id":124089,"date":"2021-06-22T03:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-boeing-mq-25-stingray"},"modified":"2021-06-22T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T10:37:26","slug":"its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-boeing-mq-25-stingray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-boeing-mq-25-stingray","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a Bird! It\u2019s a Plane! It\u2019s a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-a-boeing-mq-25-stingray.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois-based mission lasted about four and a half hours and validated that an unmanned tanker could successfully use the Navy\u2019s standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124089","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}