European Defence AgencyDec 22, 2022

✈️Innovation in the air.

⛽️EDA's research into the hose and drogue system will prepare air-to-air refuelling tankers, such as the #MRTT to cope with more demanding operations and be ready for the next generation of unmanned platforms.

#EUdefence #Innovation #defencenews
RT @AirbusDefence: Airbus to lead research into automatic air-to-air refuelling #A3R for hose & drogue system, launched by @EDA. The 2-year project, led by Spain in collaboration with Germany, w…

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European Defence Agency (@EUDefenceAgency)

✈️Innovation in the air. ⛽️EDA's research into the hose and drogue system will prepare air-to-air refuelling tankers, such as the #MRTT to cope with more demanding operations and be ready for the next generation of unmanned platforms. #EUdefence #Innovation #defencenews

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Jeroen Franssen 🇧🇪Apr 17, 2020
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Airbus achieves world’s first fully automatic refuelling contacts. #A3R
https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2020/04/airbus-achieves-worlds-first-fully-automatic-refuelling-contacts.html
#SmartMRTT #WeMakeItFly

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AirbusDefence/status/1251087813644357632
Airbus achieves world’s first fully automatic refuelling contacts

Airbus has achieved the first ever fully automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The flight test campaign, conducted earlier in the year over the Atlantic Ocean, involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft equipped with the Airbus A3R solution, with an F-16 fighter aircraft of the Portuguese Air Force acting as a receiver.