The U.S. Navy is spending $13 billion buying 72 MQ-25 Stingray tanker drones for its 11 ACs

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The U.S. Navy’s New Drone Could Team Up With Stealth Fighters

The U.S. Navy is spending $13 billion buying 72 MQ-25 Stingray tanker drones for its 11 aircraft carriers. The idea is for the Boeing BA-made MQ-25s to refuel manned fighters, extending their range while also relieving the fighter squadrons of their own tanking duties.

But the MQ-25 always had potential to be more than just an aerial-refueler. With its stealthy airframe and high endurance, it could be a surveillance plane and even a light strike platform, too.

At least one fleet community isn’t waiting for the Navy and Boeing to adapt the MQ-25 to other missions. The fleet’s airborne command-and-control weapons school at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, California, already thinks of the Stingray as more than a tanker.

Robbin Laird, a military analyst and writer, spoke to Cmdr. Christopher Hulitt, the head of the school, and summarized the conversation at Second Line of Defense.

Laird and Hulitt’s main point is that the Navy is acquiring new aircraft with highly-sophisticated communications systems and sensors. The F-35C stealth fighter. The E-2D early-warning plane. The MQ-4C high-altitude drone. And the MQ-25.

Where before, E-2s would fly over a maritime battle, detecting targets and relaying commands to fighters, now a new system is coming together. The F-35C, E-2D, MQ-4C and MQ-25 all possess the qualities of a sensor- and command-and-control platform. So instead of passing information just one way—from an E-2 to a fighter—in coming years info could begin moving in all directions.

An F-35C in stealth mode might detect an enemy ship using its passive sensors and beam, via secure datalink, the target’s general location to the nearby MQ-25 that just refueled the F-35C. The MQ-25 could hand off the data to an E-2D. The E-2D crew could instruct the operators of an MQ-4C to steer their drone toward the enemy ship’s location.

Once the MQ-4C pinpoints the ship, the E-2D could then pass the targeting data back to the F-35C as well as to other allied vessels and planes, all of which could fire missiles. Imagine this whole process happening in minutes.

“It is about deploying an extended trusted sensor network, which can be tapped through various waveforms, and then being able to shape how the decision-making arc can best deliver the desired combat effect,” Laird wrote.

The Navy hopes to deploy the first MQ-25s as early as 2024.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...d-team-up-with-stealth-fighters/#6367b05175e2

 

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The U.S. Navy’s New Drone Could Team Up With Stealth Fighters

The U.S. Navy is spending $13 billion buying 72 MQ-25 Stingray tanker drones for its 11 aircraft carriers. The idea is for the Boeing BA-made MQ-25s to refuel manned fighters, extending their range while also relieving the fighter squadrons of their own tanking duties.

But the MQ-25 always had potential to be more than just an aerial-refueler. With its stealthy airframe and high endurance, it could be a surveillance plane and even a light strike platform, too.

At least one fleet community isn’t waiting for the Navy and Boeing to adapt the MQ-25 to other missions. The fleet’s airborne command-and-control weapons school at Naval Base Ventura County in Point Mugu, California, already thinks of the Stingray as more than a tanker.

Robbin Laird, a military analyst and writer, spoke to Cmdr. Christopher Hulitt, the head of the school, and summarized the conversation at Second Line of Defense.

Laird and Hulitt’s main point is that the Navy is acquiring new aircraft with highly-sophisticated communications systems and sensors. The F-35C stealth fighter. The E-2D early-warning plane. The MQ-4C high-altitude drone. And the MQ-25.

Where before, E-2s would fly over a maritime battle, detecting targets and relaying commands to fighters, now a new system is coming together. The F-35C, E-2D, MQ-4C and MQ-25 all possess the qualities of a sensor- and command-and-control platform. So instead of passing information just one way—from an E-2 to a fighter—in coming years info could begin moving in all directions.

An F-35C in stealth mode might detect an enemy ship using its passive sensors and beam, via secure datalink, the target’s general location to the nearby MQ-25 that just refueled the F-35C. The MQ-25 could hand off the data to an E-2D. The E-2D crew could instruct the operators of an MQ-4C to steer their drone toward the enemy ship’s location.

Once the MQ-4C pinpoints the ship, the E-2D could then pass the targeting data back to the F-35C as well as to other allied vessels and planes, all of which could fire missiles. Imagine this whole process happening in minutes.

“It is about deploying an extended trusted sensor network, which can be tapped through various waveforms, and then being able to shape how the decision-making arc can best deliver the desired combat effect,” Laird wrote.

The Navy hopes to deploy the first MQ-25s as early as 2024.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davida...d-team-up-with-stealth-fighters/#6367b05175e2

It could also refuel other combat UAV's. You could have a swarm of these up 24 hours a day with persistent refueling.

I do believe in the future there will be swarms patrolling critical areas 24 hours a day that need constant refueling.

Such as:
1) A dozen flying in a circle patrol around a Carrier battle group 100km out.
2) Dozens flying in a circle patrol around Guam 100km out.
3) Patrolling along the North/South Korea border.
4) up the coast of North and South America.

 

[Armchair]

up the coast of North and South America

why do americans always want to petrol places that dont border them? some unique characteristic that causes being nosey over the horizon. a national characteristic perhaps.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

up the coast of North and South America.

why do americans always want to petrol places that dont border them? some unique characteristic that causes being nosey over the horizon. a national characteristic perhaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance

 

[SEAISI]

Did the Ruskies just shot down a us drone over crimea recently? Or is that fake news?

 

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Did the Ruskies just shot down a us drone over crimea recently? Or is that fake news?

All I see is a Chinese one.

May 26, 2020
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/2...n_Chinese_made_Wing_Loong_Drones#.Xs66kBNKiRs
Libyan National Army Shoots Down Own Chinese-made Wing Loong Drones
The Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Belqasim Haftar have down two of their own Chinese-built Wing Loong II combat drones supplied to them by the United Arab Emirates

 

[SEAISI]

Chinese drone operated by Libyans vs US drone operated by US.

This is a good comparison

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Chinese drone operated by Libyans vs US drone operated by US.

This is a good comparison

You find that Crimea story yet...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27926078/predator-drone-chinese/
Turns Out Buying a Chinese Knock-Off Predator Drone Is a Bad Idea

At least one buyer of China’s copy of the famous Predator is none too happy. Jordan is selling off its fleet of CH-4B “Rainbow” drones after owning them for just two years. The Middle Eastern kingdom was reportedly not happy with the drones’ performance and is seeking to unload them at auction.

 

[SEAISI]

You find that Crimea story yet...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a27926078/predator-drone-chinese/
Turns Out Buying a Chinese Knock-Off Predator Drone Is a Bad Idea

At least one buyer of China’s copy of the famous Predator is none too happy. Jordan is selling off its fleet of CH-4B “Rainbow” drones after owning them for just two years. The Middle Eastern kingdom was reportedly not happy with the drones’ performance and is seeking to unload them at auction.

looks like the ruskies are pretty good with taking down yankee drones
https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...3/russia-claims-it-took-down-us-drone/359197/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ir-defenses-near-libyan-capital-idUSKBN1YB04W

 

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looks like the ruskies are pretty good with taking down yankee drones
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/russia-claims-it-took-down-us-drone/359197/

2014 in Crimea is recent? I knew you were making up shit like the typical Chinese here. Now you are trying to cover your pathetic ***.

2 Chinese drones dropping like flies just in the last 10 days.

Did the Ruskies just shot down a us drone over crimea recently? Or is that fake news?

No, you totally made it up. Fake news out of you mouth is just the standard operating procedure.

 

[cloud4000]

How soon before pilots are cut out from the equation and we hand over flying duties to drones, including those operating without human input?

 

[SEAISI]

2014 in Crimea is recent? I knew you were making up shit like the typical Chinese here. Now you are trying to cover your pathetic ***.
2 Chinese drones dropping like flies just in the last 10 days.
No, you totally made it up. Fake news out of you mouth is just the standard operating procedure.

lol only take a couple of posts to get you triggered. that was way easier than i thought

in other news https://www.rt.com/news/462255-iran-shot-drone-us-hormuz/

man, those yankee drones are getting shot down left, right and center