{"id":128169,"date":"2021-09-28T02:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/lockheed-martin-unveils-lmxt-aerial-refueling-tanker-for-the-us-air-force"},"modified":"2021-09-28T02:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:22:45","slug":"lockheed-martin-unveils-lmxt-aerial-refueling-tanker-for-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/lockheed-martin-unveils-lmxt-aerial-refueling-tanker-for-the-us-air-force","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin unveils LMXT aerial refueling tanker for the US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-unveils-lmxt-aerial-refueling-tanker-for-the-us-air-force2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some improvements of the new model include a significantly improved range, fuel offload capacity, operational and combat-proven advanced camera and vision system, and upgraded communications system. The tanker will have 271,700 pounds (123,241 kg) of fuel capacity \u2013 12,000 kg more than the Airbus A330 MRTT and an almost 20-hour endurance.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/Lockheed-Martin\/\">Lockheed Martin<\/a> has a long and successful track record of producing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/aircraft\/\">aircraft<\/a> for the US Air Force, and we understand the critical role tankers play in ensuring America\u2019s total mission success,\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.lockheedmartin.com\/2021-09-17-Introducing-the-LMXT-Americas-Next-Strategic-Tanker\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Greg Ulmer, executive vice president Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. <em>\u201cThe LMXT combines proven performance and operator-specific capabilities to meet the Air Force\u2019s refueling requirements in support of America\u2019s National Defense Strategy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to better range and increased payload, the LMXT tanker is equipped with a proven fly-by-wire boom currently certified and used by allies to refuel US Air Force receiver aircraft in operations around the world, the world\u2019s first fully automatic boom\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/boeing-aerial-tanker-drone-refuels-another-aircraft-mid-air\/19431\/\">air-to-air refueling<\/a> (A3R) system, and open system architecture JADC2 (Joint All-Domain Command and Control) systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some improvements of the new model include a significantly improved range, fuel offload capacity, operational and combat-proven advanced camera and vision system, and upgraded communications system. The tanker will have 271,700 pounds (123,241 kg) of fuel capacity \u2013 12,000 kg more than the Airbus A330 MRTT and an almost 20-hour endurance. \u201cLockheed Martin has a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128169","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}