Boeing’s Australian Escort UAV Addresses Chinese Threat

GEELONG, Australia—Boeing’s Airpower Teaming System (ATS) escort-drone program is in part an answer to China’s attempts at threatening valuable and vulnerable support aircraft behind enemy fighters. The Boeing work, undertaken in Australia, also seeks to answer the challenge of dealing with rapidly...
Bradley Perrett

Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.

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