New refucker stealth from Lockheed Martin

The American company Lockheed Martin presented at the AIAA 2018 Aviation Forum an updated model of the Stels aircraft.

In the conditions of constant improvement of military equipment and the secret arms race, aircraft designers pay special attention to the “invisibility” parameter of their developments. Stealth for radar is an obligatory characteristic of aircraft used for reconnaissance and other military purposes.

The new version of the Stealth aircraft, called Advanced Aerial Refueling, was created to implement the function of refueling vehicles in the air. This innovative design solution has brought refuelers to a fundamentally new level corresponding to modern realities.

The design of the updated model has undergone significant changes compared with the previous versions. Thus, the shape of the wings, the tail section, and the arrangement of the individual hull elements have changed.All this was done to improve the streamlining of the body, which will make the car invisible to radar.

Advanced Aerial Refueling - not the first model of the refueling operator from Lockheed Martin, the company has previously presented a variety of versions of such an aircraft. It is quite possible that this model will once again not be the last version of the inventors. Nevertheless, most of the tests of the new aircraft were successfully passed, which means that the final version of the project will appear in the very near future.