Unmanned Drones - All Types for Military and Naval Use

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Drone refuels aircraft for the first time

The American MQ-25 programme has successfully conducted the first ever aerial refueling operations between a crewed receiver aircraft and an uncrewed tanker.
According to the U.S. Navy, this successful flight “demonstrated that the MQ-25 Stingray can fulfill its tanker mission using the Navy’s standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method”.

“During the flight, the receiver Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet approached the Boeing-owned MQ-25 T1 test asset, conducted a formation evaluation, wake survey, drogue tracking and then plugged with the unmanned aircraft. T1 then successfully transferred fuel from its Aerial Refueling Store (ARS) to the F/A-18.”

“This flight lays the foundation for integration into the carrier environment, allowing for greater capability toward manned-unmanned teaming concepts,” said Rear Adm. Brian Corey who oversees the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons.

“MQ-25 will greatly increase the range and endurance of the future carrier air wing – equipping our aircraft carriers with additional assets well into the future.”

Testing with T1 will continue over the next several months to include flight envelope expansion, engine testing, and deck handling demonstrations aboard an aircraft carrier later this year.

The MQ-25A Stingray will be the world’s first operational carrier-based uncrewed aircraft capable of refuelling other aircraft.

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Watch this plane shoot down drones with a high-powered laser in a first-of-its-kind Israeli military test

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What will the Royal Navy’s new Vixen jets look like?
June 15, 2021
Carrier based ‘Vixen’ drones are being considered for a range of missions including combat, aerial refuelling and airborne early warning but what could they look like?

According to an official Royal Navy publication, titled Future Maritime Aviation Force, which was originally published in December 2020, the Royal Navy aims to replace its helicopter-based airborne early warning (AEW) platform, the Merlin HM2 Crowsnest, with a fixed-wing UAV, currently known as Vixen, by 2030.
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Puma drone comes on ‘leaps and bounds’ during North Sea and Baltic deployment

See - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... operations
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Drone swarms support Commando Forces trials in a first for the UK’s armed forces

Drones dived, sailed and flew together in a swarm in a first for the UK’s armed forces during experimental exercises with the Royal Marines.
An array of autonomous systems operated underwater, on the water, in the sky and over land to help Royal Marines Commandos as they carried out training raids on a number of complex ‘adversary’ positions – such as missile and radar installations – in Cumbria and Dorset.
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Drone swarms support Commando Forces trials in a first for the UK’s armed forces

Drones dived, sailed and flew together in a swarm in a first for the UK’s armed forces during experimental exercises with the Royal Marines.
An array of autonomous systems operated underwater, on the water, in the sky and over land to help Royal Marines Commandos as they carried out training raids on a number of complex ‘adversary’ positions – such as missile and radar installations – in Cumbria and Dorset.

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BAE unveil torpedo carrying heavy-lift T-650 drone

DSEI 2021 – BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics have announced plans to explore the development of an all-electric ‘heavy lift’ uncrewed air system as a potential new solution to deliver “rapid response capability” to military, security and civilian customers.
The firm say that the all-electric powered concept vehicle will be designed with a top speed of 140 kilometres per hour and the ability to carry a 300kg payload with a range of 30 kilometres.

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DSEI 2021: FTUAS Competition Set To Start

The Royal Navy (RN) is taking the first steps towards introducing uncrewed and autonomous airborne platforms into its front line, with a competition for the supply of a shipborne Flexible Tactical Uncrewed Air System (FTUAS) expected to kick off in the coming weeks.

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Royal Navy Shares Visionary Video of Its Future Warfare Concepts

It features autonomous aircraft, drones, modular pods, and renewable energies.

See - https://interestingengineering.com/roya ... e-concepts
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Autonomous Fleet concepts set course for Royal Navy's next 50 years

The Royal Navy has released an outline of its vision of how its Future Autonomous Fleet will operate over the next half century, including green aircraft carriers, underwater command centers, and robotic warships.
Based on a recent Defence Command Paper and a design challenge given to young engineers from the UK Naval Engineering Science and Technology (UKNEST), the list of concepts of the future Navy shows the service is continuing its strategy of making up for a shrunken fleet by relying on advanced technology that packs a bigger punch. In this case, it involves an increasing reliance on artificial intelligence and automation mixed with greater exploitation of the underwater realm.
See - https://newatlas.com/military/royal-nav ... ous-fleet/
Link also from Tim.
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