'Exciting' first as US Navy refuels jet mid-air with unmanned drone

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The US Navy has refuelled an aircraft using an unmanned drone for the first time. The drone, dubbed MQ-25 Stingray, uses the Navy's probe-and-drogue refuelling method. 9News

near the Paracel Islands, asserting "navigational rights and freedoms ... consistent with international law," Lieutenant Nicholas Lingo, spokesperson for the US Seventh Fleet, said in a statement.Countries with the highest military expenditure in the worldThey have been under Beijing's control for more than four decades - despite competing claims from Vietnam and Taiwan - and China has fortified them with military installations.

Beijing, which claims almost all of the South China Sea as its territory, said the movement of the US warship violated its sovereignty. But US President Joe Biden, in a speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, accused China - and also Russia - of "disruptive actions" challenging decades-old international rules protecting maritime commerce in the South China Sea and other waterways.

 

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