1st Look: Boeing’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Refueling Pod

Joseph Trevithick reported on TheDrive.com that, “Senator Duckworth is a U.S. Army veteran and former Lieutenant Colonel who lost both her legs when a rocket-propelled grenade hit her UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a mission in Iraq in 2004. She was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois between 2013 and 2017 before winning her current Senate seat.” Photos courtesy of Joseph Trevithick, email: joe[at]thedrive[dot]com, and Office of Senator Tammy Duckworth via TheDrive.com

Thanks to CDR David Place (USN/Ret), davidplace47[at]gmail[dot]com, and Robin E. Alexander, President ATC, alexander technical[at]gmail[dot]com, for their assistance with this report, the background for which appeared in their  # 20 - 15 - 24 JULY 2020 edition of the UNMANNED SYSTEMS NEWS (USN).

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