Airbus achieves in-flight autonomous guidance and control of a drone from a tanker aircraft
Airbus Defence and Space and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Airbus UpNext, have achieved in-flight autonomous guidance and control of an Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS) using an A310 MRTT. In a first step towards Autonomous Formation Flight and Autonomous Air-to-Air refuelling (A4R), the technologies…