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INTRODUCING
THE
X-47B
Aerospace goliath Northrop Grumman has taken the
wraps off one of the most advanced robot aircraft in
the world, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air
System (UCAS).
The X-47B is intended to operate from the flight deck of US Navy aircraft carriers, carrying out entire missions including air-to-air refueling
without pilot input.
Captain Martin Deppe , of the Navy’s X-47B project said that Northrop will
provide four demonstration aircraft, mainly intended to
prove that unmanned planes can successfully take off from, and land
onto, US carriers.
Northrop Grumman states that the X-47B, now
completed, will enter ground and flight tests in
the autumn of 2009. Carrier trials are scheduled in 2011.
And now, the X-47B
NOT THE END
BUT THE BEGINNING
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