October 3, 2018
Here Comes the Stealth: How Navy Aircraft Carriers Are Getting a Big Upgrade
by David Axe
The MQ-25’s latent stealth could help it evolve into a stealthy surveillance and attack drone, essentially bringing the Navy’s drone-development programs full circle to their 1990s origin.
The U.S. Navy on Aug. 30, 2018 chose Chicago-based Boeing to build the sailing branch’s first carrier-launched unmanned aerial vehicle.
In choosing Boeing to build the MQ-25 Stingray multi-mission tanker, the Navy has opened the next major chapter in a story that began in the mid-1990s, when the sailing branch worked alongside the U.S. Air Force to develop a fighter-like drone.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/here-comes-stealth-how-navy-aircraft-carriers-are-getting-big-upgrade-32532
