{"id":307594,"date":"2025-10-27T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-mq-25-stingray-us-navys-best-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:31:20","slug":"forget-the-f-35-heres-why-the-mq-25-stingray-could-be-the-us-navys-best-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=307594","title":{"rendered":"Forget The F-35: Here\u2019s Why The MQ-25 Stingray Could Be The US Navy\u2019s Best Aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58652\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>US Navy<\/span><\/span> is rushing the development and integration of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2037661\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-navy-mq-25-stingray-aerial-refueling-drone\/\" >the new Boeing MQ-25A Stingray tanker drone<\/a><\/span>. As with Air Force counterparts, this humble tanker could take its place as one of the most important aircraft onboard the service&#8217;s aircraft carriers. Without fuel, even the most advanced fighter jet is little more than debris crashing into the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MQ-25 carrier-based tanker may soon be one of the most critical enablers to keep the F-35 relevant and aircraft carriers safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,748,628,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307595,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307594\/revisions\/307595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}