Boeing’s drone tanker, MQ-25 Stingray, will conduct roughly 960 annual flight operations, in accordance with a current U.S. Navy information launch.
The small print got in a 17 March launch, to announce that the Navy has launched a remaining Environmental Evaluation (EA) and Discovering of No Important Influence (FONSI) for residence basing of the MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based Unmanned Air System (Stingray CBUAS) at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Level Mugu, California.
The Proposed Motion is to determine services and capabilities at NBVC Level Mugu, California, to assist residence basing and operations of the MQ-25A Stingray CBUAS. Below the Proposed Motion, the Navy would residence base 20 Stingray CBUAS; assemble a hangar, coaching services, and supporting infrastructure; carry out air automobile upkeep; present coaching for operators and maintainers; conduct roughly 960 Stingray CBUAS annual flight operations; and station roughly 730 personnel, plus their relations.
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The Stingray will improve plane service functionality and flexibility by the mixing of a persistent, sea-based, multi-mission aerial refueling and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance unmanned aerial system into the service air wing. The Stingray will prolong the vary and attain of service air wings on the West Coast to fulfill present and future threats and improve refueling and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities in assist of nationwide protection aims and insurance policies.
Based mostly on evaluation introduced within the EA, which has been ready in accordance with the necessities of the Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act, and in session with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and California Coastal Fee, the Navy finds that implementation of the Proposed Motion won’t considerably influence the standard of the human atmosphere. Subsequently, an environmental influence assertion will not be required.