Having recently won the coveted US Navy MQ-25 Stingray contract, Boeing has now hired Rolls-Royce to provide the engines that will one day power the unmanned, carrier-based aerial refueler through the skies. Previously, the US Navy announced that its much anticipated $805 million MQ-25A engineering and manufacturing contract would be carried ...
Boeing will deliver the first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft – the MQ-25 aerial refueler – to the US Navy, fending off rival bids from Lockheed Martin and General Atomics. Having won the coveted $805 million contract, Boeing will undertake MQ-25 construction at a site in St. Louis, Missouri. Here, engineering and ...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has celebrated a successful performance testing of the arresting hook ‘Hold Down Damper’ for its MQ-25 Stingray prototype. The prototype is one of several pitched as part of a US Navy competition calling for an unmanned aircraft capable of aerial refuelling. In addition to General Atomics, Boeing ...