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Re:Midair plane refuels done by a drone for the first time by adolph on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @02:46PM (#27451557)
Prior to that, in 2012, DARPA’s Autonomous High-Altitude Refueling program demonstrated fully autonomous aerial refueling of unmanned air vehicles at high altitude. This culminated with two modified RQ-4 Global Hawkdrones flying in close formation to test probe-and-drogue contacts, as seen in this video:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40955/the-navys-tanker...

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Re:Midair plane refuels done by a drone for the first time by engineer_22 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:04PM (#27451772)
This refers, I think, to a drone being refueled by a manned aircraft. The roles have now reversed.
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