The Navy today launched an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) from an aircraft carrier at sea, the system's first at-sea catapult launch. The aircraft flew from USS George H. W.
The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator successfully completed its inaugural land-based catapult launch here Nov. 29, marking the start of a new era for naval aviation. "Carrier-based ...
It was not an ordinary morning at Pax River when a large flatbed truck hauling the fighter-sized X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator, called UCAS-D, entered through the naval air station’s ...
Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned combat aircraft system demonstrator was hoisted aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Truman at NAS Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 26 ,to begin several weeks of deck ...
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Billion dollar drone that changed naval aviation
This video takes a close look at the Northrop Grumman X-47B, the billion-dollar unmanned aircraft that pushed the boundaries of drone technology. We examine its development, advanced carrier-based ...
Tap the icon in the digital edition of AW&ST to watch a video of the X-47B's seven back-to-back carrier touch-and-go landings, or go to AviationWeek.com/video The ...
Methinks the U.S. Navy has contracted some weird allergy to fleet experimentation. Why else would service potentates retire a promising experimental aircraft like the X-47B unmanned combat air system ...
Founder and Editor of sUAS News | Gary Mortimer has been a commercial balloon pilot for 25 years and also flies full-size helicopters. Prior to that, he made tea and coffee in air traffic control ...
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How the US Navy Built the X-47B Stealth Drone
Discover the groundbreaking US Navy X-47B drone, an autonomous jet that redefined carrier operations. From its historic first launch and landing on a moving carrier to autonomous aerial refueling, the ...
"There are those that see JSF as the last manned fighter. I'm one that's inclined to believe that." -- Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff "[The F-35] almost certainly ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman (NOC) a six-year, $635.8 mln contract to conduct the first ever at-sea carrier launches and recoveries with a fixed-wing unmanned air system (UAS), the X-47B ...
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