Below Glideslope: The MQ-25 Stingray Appears to be Heading for a Ramp Strike

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Below Glideslope: The MQ-25 Stingray Appears to be Heading for a Ramp Strike


The MQ-25 program is settling well below glideslope and it is time to pull up.
Jerry Hendrix [2]

Even as reports surface of American supercarriers and their embarked air-wings hurriedly steaming towards the Korean peninsula, the saga of the Navy’s carrier based unmanned aircraft program seems to have taken yet another turn for the worse.  Instead of adhering to direction by both the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and the Deputy Secretary of Defense to maximize the strike range of the carrier air wing it appears that naval aviation leadership is placing its finger on the MQ-25 design scale and prioritizing unrefueled endurance for the intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance (ISR) mission at the expense of great fuel offload for long-range mission tanking.


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