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Navy Establishing Two MQ-25 Squadrons For Detachments, Plans To Refuel Test E-2

Monday, August 2nd, 2021

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Navy Establishing Two MQ-25 Squadrons For Detachments, Plans To Refuel Test E-2

The Boeing MQ-25A T-1 test asset conducts the first refueling between an unmanned aircraft and a manned F/A-18E/F Super Hornet on June 4, 2021. (Photo: Boeing)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The Navy plans to establish two MQ-25A Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker squadrons to deploy detachments to aircraft carriers and will next conduct a test refuel on an E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft. Later this year the Navy plans to standup the MQ-25A fleet replacement squadron VUQ-10 to start training operators and maintainers of the aircraft, Capt. Chad Reed, program manager of Unmanned Carrier Aviation, of PMA-268, said Monday during the Navy League’s 2021 Sea Air Space…

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