Navy Moves Ahead On Automated Aerial Refueling Demo

Credit: Northrop Grumman
If aircraft carriers enable the U.S. to project force, keeping those forces over the battle falls to its aerial-refueling tanker fleet. Automated tanking will be critical to the persistent surveillance and deep-strike capabilities envisioned for unmanned combat aircraft. So it makes sense that, once...

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