Airbus and European partners start €8 million program to automate hose‑and‑drogue
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A new European phase of an Airbus‑led programme to automate hose‑and‑drogue air‑to‑air refuelling has been launched with an estimated budget of 8 million euros, following the July 2022 certification of the A330 MRTT for automatic daylight boom refuelling and Singapore’s February 2026 full certification of A3R capability on its A330 MRTTs for day and night operations with F‑15 and F‑16 fighters.
The second phase will involve a consortium of Airbus Defence and Space with GMV in Spain, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and AES Technology in Germany, and ScioTeq together with the von Karman Institute in Belgium, and aims to develop relative navigation technologies, imaging sensors, communications and data‑processing that allow aircraft to determine their position relative to another platform without relying solely on GPS, potentially reducing crew workload, improving contact consistency and lowering the risk of interruptions or damage during manoeuvres.
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