Credit: Jamie Cosgrove/Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division
DEFENSE Boeing conducted the 2-hr. first flight of the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based uncrewed refueling aircraft from Mascoutah, Illinois, on April 27. Northrop Grumman has sold a previously undisclosed company-owned B-21 test aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under a production acceleration agreement...
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