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Navy/USMC

Navy Looking At More Unmanned Aircraft Types For Future Carrier Air Wing

Thursday, July 14th, 2022

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Navy Looking At More Unmanned Aircraft Types For Future Carrier Air Wing

The MQ-25 Stingray test asset, T-1, conducts deck handling maneuvers on Dec. 12, 2021 while underway aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), the first testing of the MQ-25 model at sea. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy is developing several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it works on the air wing of the future for aircraft carriers beyond the unmanned carrier-based tanker it expects to deploy later this decade. Rear Adm. Andrew Loiselle, the director of the Air Warfare Division, N98, this week underscored the air wing of the future will be operating at ranges “that vastly exceed what we’re doing today. And so in order to do that, unmanned portfolio really needs to be…

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