Military aircraft are a little bit like sports cars. Form follows function to make something utterly striking, regardless of whether beauty has any tactically relevant advantage. But form must follow function in the armed forces too, even if that means it looks like a third-grader designed it after being picked up from school for wetting themselves.
The Boeing MQ-25 Stingray is a jet-powered, Group 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which will perform aerial refueling missions for the U.S. Navy (USN). The aircraft will have a secondary role as an ISR platform – using a Raytheon supplied EO/IR system. The Stingray is powered by a single Rolls Royce AE 3007N turbofan engine that produces more than 10,000 lbs. of thrust.
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