Marine Insight reports a communications and control test linking USS Ronald Reagan’s Unmanned Air Warfare Center with an MQ-25A aircraft at Boeing’s facility in Mascoutah, Illinois. The account describes a satellite connection through an MD-5C ground-control station.

The report places the aircraft at the facility and describes the work as part of a series of integration trials. It does not establish a completed airborne refuelling operation or readiness for routine operational missions; further testing is planned.

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Source: Marine Insight · original report