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By Garrett Reim2021-02-25T20:30:00+00:00
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to flight test its Skyborg autonomous aircraft technology during Orange Flag exercises this summer for the first time.
The AFRL has previously said tests would take place in July 2021. Participation in the Orange Flag exercises was previously undisclosed.
Source: US Air Force
The Skyborg programme remains in early development
,Brigadier General Heather Pringle, commander of AFRL, said during a press conference at the Air Force Association’s Aerospace Warfare Symposium on 24 February.
“The Skyborg capability isn’t going to be a weapons school graduate wingman any time soon,” she says. “We are looking to take the components of the autonomy, fly it in some very rigorous test capabilities, such as the Orange Flag flights coming up this summer, and then look to slowly add capabilities, measure, learn from our successes, and then keep the programme going.”
The KC-46 s chief problem is a glitch in its Remote Vision System, or RVS, software, which does not allow a clear visual of the boom connecting to another aircraft. The Air Force continues to work with manufacturer Boeing Co. to fix the troubled tanker, which was first delivered in January 2019 despite that problem. The service reached an agreement last April with Boeing on the final RVS redesign, known as RVS 2.0.
Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, head of AMC, said that, while the KC-46 still isn t ready for an overseas deployment to a combat region, the tanker will start accepting mission tasks from U.S. Transportation Command, or TRANSCOM, on a case-by-case basis.
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