The Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) effort is being retooled as primarily a carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling platform — one of several Pentagon directed naval aviation mandates in the service’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget submission. The shift from UCLASS to the original Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System (CBARS) will be made alongside an additional […]
Source: usni.org