The improved Remote Vision System 2.0 that Boeing will install on the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker includes LiDAR sensors that could allow autonomous aerial refueling.
U.S. Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner / Public domain
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics says data collected by the sensors as well as from 4K high-definition cameras could be feed into “into algorithms that allow the tanker to tank itself.”
This capability was included as an option in the agreement between the service and Boeing signed last week.
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