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MQ-25 Award Covers 72 Vehicles, Moves Up IOC

Friday, August 31st, 2018

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MQ-25 Award Covers 72 Vehicles, Moves Up IOC

Boeing shows off its prototype for the MQ-25 unmanned carrier tanker offering in St. Louis, Miss. (Photo: Defense Daily)

The Navy late Thursday said that the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker program intends to eventually deliver 72 aircraft after the initial four test aircraft and the program is accelerating the Initial Operating Capability (IOC) by two years to 2024.On Thursday the Navy awarded Boeing [BA] an $805 million engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract for the design, development, fabrication, test, verification, and certification of four MQ-25A unmanned air vehicles over two rival bids (Defense Daily, Aug. 30).The Stingray program will…

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