22.09.2019, 14:25
Erstflug der neuen Drohne MQ-25 Stingray der USN, diese soll den Carrier Air Wings zugeteilt werden. Die Drohne dient der Luftbetankung...
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Zitat:Boeing MQ-25 Stingray Carrier-Based Aerial Refueling Drone flies for the first timehttps://theaviationist.com/2019/09/20/bo...irst-time/
The first test asset flew autonomously just one year after the contract award
The U.S. Navy and Boeing announced on Sept. 19, 2019 the first flight of the MQ-25 Stingray test asset from MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah, Illinois, which is adjacent to Scott Air Force Base. The drone is set to be the first carrier-launched autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to be integrated in a Carrier Air Wing. [...] The MQ-25 Stingray will be the first operational carrier-based UAV, designed to provide an aerial refueling capability and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), and the second UAV to operate from an aircraft carrier, after the Northrop Grumman X-47B Pegasus that was tested both alone (2013) and alongside manned aircraft (2014) from the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) and the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).
The integration of the Stingray into the Carrier Air Wing will ease the strain on the F/A-18E Super Hornets that currently perform buddy-tanker missions in support of the aircraft carrier’s launch and recovery operations, leaving them available for operational taskings.
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