X-47B Makes Connection En Route To Refueling Demo

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have completed the first inflight dry hookup of the X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UACS-D) and a tanker in a precursor to the first air-to-air refueling of an unmanned aircraft. The flying-wing X-47B, equipped with an extendable refueling probe...

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