Category: MQ-X

The U.S. Navy has given four contractors the final request for proposals for the MQ-25 unmanned aerial tanker program.

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The latest draft request for proposals for the MQ-25A competition suggests the U.S. Navy is only keen on having the aircraft acting as a mission tanker and less emphasis is given on its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. An artist concept from Lockheed Martin showed a Navy buddy tanking pod hanging on a pylon. Do you think the company might just refurbish the S-3s under storage and offer them as unmanned tankers?

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The U.S. Navy has issued a new draft request for proposals for its MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker and one of its two key performance parameters (KPP) is to do mission tanking.

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PMA-268 has carried out a simulation to operate the MQ-25 at NAS Patuxent River on Apr. 11. NAVAIR said the demonstration validated the first build of the MD-5 Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System (UMCS).

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The U.S. Navy will stand up Unmanned Patrol Squadron (VUP) 19 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, USNI News reported.

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