Company claims ability to embed power, data transfer capability onto refueling drogue

Icon Aerospace says their in-flight refueling drogue can be connected with power supply and telemetry cables and fibre optics for data transfer.

This allows for diagnostics, reprogramming and a host of other functions when a UAV is connected to the drogue.

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