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2021-06-08 Science

US Navy makes history as unmanned tanker drone refuels a fighter jet for the first time

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-08 02:52|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1

Wondering out-loud if it can be adapted to be a Fuel-Air weapon?

Imagine smaller 5 to 25 gal/pound field deployable versions hovering over a target vaporizing the fuel and igniting it.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-08 06:43|| 2021-06-08 06:43|| Front Page Top

#2 DJI Agras T20 Read to Fly Combo

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-08 08:26|| 2021-06-08 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 So this unmanned craft does the re-fueling role just fine but Boeing still has problems making the KC-46 boom work correctly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-08 09:01|| 2021-06-08 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Probe and drogue system makes the following aircraft responsible for much of the "fiddly stuff" of refueling. Still, this could 'free' manned F/A-18s for strike missions instead of orbiting the carriers as tankers

Posted by magpie 2021-06-08 09:37|| 2021-06-08 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5
Many years ago I was the backup Network Eng. at Seymour Johnson AFB for the KC-130 Simulator

One our contracted "tasks" ☺ was testing (flying) the KC-130 Boom/Bot Simulators. While there I got to see a Video of a inflight refueling accident.

A refueling of a USAF F-4 jet between Iceland and Greenland. The hose kinked the jet pulled away and the hose filled the starboard side engine with JP fuel. Massive Backfire/ flames and etc... Needless to say the jet had issues and ditched.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-08 18:53|| 2021-06-08 18:53|| Front Page Top

#6 So that's a bad lock.
Whose?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-08 22:28|| 2021-06-08 22:28|| Front Page Top

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