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Old 20th Dec 2017, 07:11
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One wonders whether ol' Bubba Boeing will have more luck getting this drone to work than he has so far with the KC-46A Pigosaurus...

While the Navy has been reluctant about the specific goals of the program, the service’s basic requirements will have the MQ-25 deliver about 6800 kg of fuel 500 nautical miles from the carrier.
Which is about the same as 8 x 1000 litre drop tanks....

Presumably they'd launch at least 2 of the things together, with some non-bumping-into-each other system, in order to provide redundancy?
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